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Subject: Re: Christianity and Europe


Author:
Phil Allsopp
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Date Posted: 05:04:42 12/29/02 Sun
In reply to: Joey 's message, "Christianity and Europe" on 00:19:06 12/25/02 Wed

Having grown up in Europe where all kinds of eccentricities, talent and abhorrence of religion - particulatly the Christian kind abound, I can attest to the writer's assertions.

Does not believing in a particular "supreme being" make those people - and thus those of us in the US who choose not to subscribe to Christian or other deity-oriented faiths - bad people? I think not. I've never heard one instance of atheists (not pagans remember - but atheists) setting out to murder other people just because they think differently about the world they live in

Seems to me that in recorded history more people have been raped, murdered, repressed and abused in the name of religion than for almost any other reason out there. The hands of Christian bishops are far from clean given their dark history of repression, torture, murder and destruction of knowledge. The same can apply to Islam and other "faiths" that seek to impose a set of beliefs in a supreme being on others.

What makes us think that just because we are living today and we have computers, space telecopes and GPS that somehow collective religious beliefs are better and will not yield to the same murderous programs of a mere 500 years ago?

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Re: Christianity and EuropeSean Haugh12:39:30 12/29/02 Sun



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