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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean O'Toole" <trading@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: THE ANSWER
> 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.
Sean,
I think you're missing the point. No one is born a religious fanatic. If you
then never go to school, you won't automatically become a religious fanatic
from your lack of education.
Religious (or any other) fanaticism is only created by those who would seek
to use an individual's sacrifice of their self to a 'higher power' for their
own fanatical ends.
If the sacrifice is never made, they would be impotent. Imagine if everyone
at the Nuremburg rallies simply said "Sheesh! What has that Adolph been
smoking?".
The fact that they had tacitly sacrificed themselves to the "Fatherland",
for fear of being branded 'unpatriotic', left them open to manipulation by a
very skilled orator playing on every human emotion imagineable. If you let
your mind be commandeered by irrational beliefs, then, to varying degrees,
it is not your own and you are not free.
It is not possible to get a twenty year old to become a suicide pilot until
that mental sacrifice has been made.
As Bonaparte said "I have discovered an amazing thing. Men will die for
ribbons".
Rgds,
Kim
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