Ray, I think you said it perfectly. The _religion_ is not at fault, it's the interpretation of some of the followers. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (as 3 major examples) are not hateful faiths. But many hateful acts have been perpetrated "in God's name" by individual leaders or groups from each of these faiths. And, unfortunately, there are those in _other_ groups who can point at these acts as reasons to blame the entire group to which the perpetrators belong. -Ben
-----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:59 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: fallwell is a nutter - happy geo?? Is it fair to blame religion for the faults of the followers though? Does any religion _really_ promote hatred? It seems to me that most of the problems come from interpertation, not religion or faith in general. To simply say, "you must be able to prove it" (to provide my crude summary of the link below), is far to simple. Faith, and other icky hard to define things, like love, hate, etc, are part of us, and to simply write it off as unscientific is... well, sad. For every Falwell, there are thousands, if not millions, of people who use their faith in God/InsertNameHere to make their lives, and those around them, better. -RC > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary P. McNeel, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:53 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: fallwell is a nutter - happy geo?? > > > This is the type of reasoning that is so typical of religion. > Chicken before > the egg stuff. It is, therefore is must be. Sadly, children > are not full of > racial or gender prejudices, only us grown ups that inflict > our weaknesses > and fears on them. Falwell is, like Hitler, a weak person who > makes up for > it by being aggressive and finding the fears and weaknesses > of like minded > people to play off of and make himself feel better. > > I try to apply the list below to what I hear. > > http://www.snshouston.com/Personal/CarlSagan/baloney.htm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
