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"Roger W. Norman"

I'm not answering for George. As George Carlin said, organized religion is
responsible for some 197,000,000 deaths since the inception of Christianity.

Enough said?

And as I said, as all of human civilization has been based on religion
that's a _bull****_ way to indict Christianity, or religion in general.

I mean if you want to go down that road how about Atheism being
responsible for the death by mass murder and genocide of over 300 Million
people in the 20th Century? Maybe George Carlin would like claim as an atheist
or nihilist responsibility for the brutality of the State Atheism of Mao,
Stalin, Pol Pot or Kim Il Sung?

And secular civilization is a relatively new phenomena, but if you want to
evaluate based on more recent history would you like to argue the French
Revolution for example was more humane and less bloody than the religious based
"Glorious Revolution" in England? Or should people who beleive in Atlantis and
Lemuria be responsible for the Nazis killing 6 million Jews? (the Nazi
leadership had a religious beleif that "The Aryan Race" were pure descendents
of Atlantian survivors).

It's all weak reasoning Roger.

I find nothing wrong with being religious, just something wrong with HAVING
religion, particularly religion that allows one to specificy that others are
wrong, or others are so different that they don't deserve the grace of god.
If one places the onus on me to be religious based on their precepts, then
either I'm going to hell with their help, or I'm simply a man that has my own
ideas about what religion consists of, and I have my own method of
meeting my god. Am I religious?

Well if you are meeting God personally it doesn't really matter much what
people say about your faith, does it? What others think only matters when you
are looking for approval, or if you beleive a relationship with a particular
person or institution is needed for personal growth or to gain God's approval.
Why does it matter to you what "The Church" has to say if you're sure of where
you stand with the Allmighty? I mean it ain't Protestantism unless you can
start your own denomination. Hey, you're giving a sermon right here, ain't ya?
You'll fit right in.

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
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