"Alex Nixon" <unitcancellation at hotmail.com> writes: > I can't believe that I'm getting involved in this discussion, > especially given how little I've read of it. Still, here it goes. > > David, your belief that Religion is to blame for hurting people and > causing the destruction of great civilizations is fallacious. It > wasn't religion, spirituality, or the belief in the supernatural that > did that- it was people. Religion is merely an institution, a way of > looking at the world, a vehicle for one's actions. It is not an > independant, thinking entity. Right, and an institution that teaches beliefs and rules of action should get no blame for bad effects of their teachings. Sorry, not buying it. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info