On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 12:22 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Then we're even: "religion" should work better than the people > > > who implement and practice it. > > > > Nope. Because the people who practice and implement it are required by > > its very nature to ignore reason, logic and to disbelieve anything to the > > contrary. > > Having read the Bible a lot (completely twice, and big chunks many > more times), and known *lots* of religious people, and being an > amateur history buff, I can categorically state that your "required" > assertion is not flat wrong.
I'll definitely second that. Too often people confuse the sheep following quasi-religious political establishments such as the Catholic church (among others), for religious people in general. Buddhism and many other eastern religions focus very heavily on logical thought and learning. So religion does not NECESSARILY need to ignore reason and logic, it is only that many of the best-known religions tend to do this. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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