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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ullrich Fischer" <uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Adam Hefner" <vonhef@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: THE ANSWER - Religion won't go away unfortunately
>
> I agree that terrorism will persist as long as there are values held
higher
> than free life. Unfortunately, religion or mysticism isn't going to go
> away. The USSR and China both tried for over half a century and failed to
> eliminate it.
No they have never tried. They just substituted one form of mysticism for
another.
OM wrote:
What you find at the heart of any political fanaticism is mysticism: an
irrational belief in a "higher power" (the state (fascism), a god (Islam,
among others), "the working class" (communism), race (Nazism, among others),
etc.) Every barbarism in history has been justified by reference to some
mystical higher power. The current barbarism is no different.
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