Arthur, Good point. My excuse for not responding was that I could not use my usual flip remark and was very unaware of this happening until now. No excuse for not responding however. There certainly is a case for Israel. It is the exclusivity that some want that bothers me.
Bill On Fri, 30 May 2003 20:49:38 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So how come no comment on this piece. > > US GIs are tortured and killed by Germans just because they look > Jewish. > They could have been agnostics, atheists or even converts to > whatever. > > So maybe, after all, there is a case to be made for the State of > Israel. > > arthur > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] *ONLY* 14 million (fwd) > > > For those who feel that they have choice as to their religion I > invite them > to visit the PBS web site below which shows the way in which some US > GI > prisoners of war were treated. Treated in a way just because they > were > Jewish. Atheist. Agnostic. Not to matter. > > Here is a case where once the GIs (who looked Jewish) were away from > the > laws and protection of the US Constitution and fell into German > hands, well > they were just juden and meant to be treated thusly. Worked to > death. > Beaten to death. Just juden. > > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/berga/about_description.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: Selma Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:09 PM > To: pete; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] *ONLY* 14 million (fwd) > > > Many Chinese are Bhuddists but there are also > > Confucianism 5 million > Chinese Folk Religion 188 million > New Asian Religion (I have no idea what this refers to) 106 million > Tribal religions 91 million Atheists 211 million > no religion 925 million > other 19 million > > I just went into google for this. > > Selma > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Futurework] *ONLY* 14 million (fwd) > > > > > > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Selma Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >FWIW (and I don't even know why I feel compelled to post this) > > > > > >there are > > > > > >2,015 million Christians > > >1,215 milliom Muslims > > >786 million Hindus > > >362 million Bhuddhists > > > > > > > > > OK, but how many agnostics? > > > > -PV > > > > (and what are 1.1B chinese filed under?) > > > > > > >>From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > >> Ray Evans Harrell wrote: > > >> > How many? There are only fourteen million on the face of > the earth. > > >> > Less than in many metropolitan areas. > > >> [snip] > > >> > > >> *ONLY* 14 million? I think that would be a pretty comfortable > > >> number for the *TOTAL* population of humans on this > > >> small planet. But, of course, I'd like to see that happen > > >> through persons transferring their interest from > > >> procreation to creation, not through the efforts of the > > >> Four Horsemen, the Grim Reaper, and their fellow > travellers.... > > >> > > >> *ONLY* 14 million? > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
