My problem is not with his questioning of religion's place in our society. It is with the anger and resentment he expresses towards it. Given that religion isn't going away anytime soon, I feel it would be more productive to continue to question its importance, but do so with a lot less hostility. Alex ----Original Message Follows---- From: Richard Suitor <rsuitor at cjwrfs.net> Reply-To: rsuitor at cjwrfs.net To: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: Re: The Religion Debate Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:11:17 -0500 On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 02:26:38 -0400, "Alex Nixon" <unitcancellation at hotmail.com> wrote: >Post Script: Christ David, you really despise religion in all of its forms. >I have one question: Where you beaten up as a child by a group consisting of >Christians, Buddhists, and Greco-Roman Pagans? 'Cause this really is a >whole lot of hate over something that's easy to ignore. hmmm -- it's not all that easy to ignore at various times and places, and a whole lot of wrong has been done in the name of God. DDB is not the only person to come to the conclusion that we would be a whole lot better off without religion, with considerable justification. Of course, a whole lot of wrong has been done in the name of that idea, too. So there is some virtue in considering the question, which I think is eventually answerable - i.e. not in the province of the Incredible Shrinking God - of whether or not people can so exist. The fact that some can, therefore all can, doesn't come close to being an acceptable answer. Richard _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus