Re: Request to remove Information
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:18:33AM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
The basic premise stems from hope and fear.
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Chris.
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