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----- Original Message -----
From: "H&M Feld" <ariel@xxxxxxxx>
> Hmmmm.....there are plenty of educated fundamentalist Christians in this
country
> who believe I'm going straight to hell when I die because I have not
accepted
> Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I realize they are not terrorists
probably only
> because the Bible doesn't say anything about me being the devil
> and dealt with harshly because I don't hold those beliefs. Harry
....and because they have already achieved their goal of becoming the single
largest
religious genre on the planet.
Had you been living during the Crusades, or a Jew during the life of Jesus
you would
have been dealt with very harshly for not holding their beliefs.
Rgds,
Kim
> Sean O'Toole wrote:
>
> > OM, I think you are simplifying things a bit too much. Religious
fanaticism
> > comes about not because of religious beliefs, but from a lack of
education.
> > Iran is a case in point. Under the Shah, the country stressed education
and
> > equality though Islam remained their national religion. When the Muslim
> > clerics took control of the country, their first act was to destroy the
> > educational system that had built Iran into a productive society.
Ignorance
> > leads to fanaticism and fanaticism leads to terrorism.
>
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