[geeks] Glad I don't live in Texas!

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > > In some cases, religion and politics are the same thing.
> > Nah, in ALL cases they're the same.  They are methods of imposing one's
> > will on others.
> Strangely enough, that concept does not exist with in my beliefs in a
> positive light.

Yes, they like to keep their bayonets well-hidden.  I didn't realise that
about the faith I used to follow until I looked at it objectively.  So
what is your faith?

> > And of course religion has NOTHING AT ALL to do with people arguing about
> > who should tell other people what to do.  Definitely not.  No.
> If some subset of set X exhibits certain qualities, that does not mean
> that those qualities are inherent in X, only in the subset.  Attempting to
> broadly paint any widely-diverse set of theologies and philosophies with a
> single brush is but intellectual folly.

I can't think of a single religion which doesn't have its own little
internal turf wars, apart from possibly Sikhism, but then I'm not very
familiar with it.

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