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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: Bigot or an anti-Christian?
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 09:16:07 EST
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In article <2657@reed.UUCP>, purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes:
> In article <124@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> jwp@sdchem.UUCP (John Pierce) writes:
> >In article <2586@reed.UUCP> purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes:
> >> 	I do not deny that the above mentioned instances are horrible
> >> acts, perfect examples of man's inhumanity to man as it were, but they
> >> are in the past....
> >
> >Ireland
> 
> 	Sadly it's true - it seems like there are always Christians, Jews,
> Muslims and other "people of God" fighting each other about who is
> really right about Him. It's like Mike Royko said in an article that he
> wrote as a letter to God (paraphrased):
> 
> 	"p.s. I don't believe all the talk going around about you being
> dead, God. You can't be. We don't have a weapon that will reach that
> far."

 You forgot to include atheists and agnostics who also have been killing each 
other since forever.  A good example of this is the old Roman empire.  They
killed for a thousand years, not for God or gods, but rather what mankind 
usually kills for; self serving greed, power, pride and honor.  Russia, which
is killing in Afghanistan right now as we talk, is a proclaimed atheist country.

 Mankind is a killer because of his very nature, not because of his God or gods.
He only uses God as his scapegoat so as not to be confronted with the truth
about his real nature.  But then, we've always been good at rationalizing, so
what else is new.  There are tens of thousands of murders and other violent
crimes commited in this country yearly, does anyone out there think these acts
are done in the name of God?  You might as well blame your cat for wars and
suffering as blame God, well why not, any god in a pinch will do, right?  But
the next time a person commits a violent act in the name of God and looks in
the mirror, he well not see God, but just himself.

ray