[lit-ideas] Re: Arrivederci, Mr. Bush...

  • From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:29:20 -0500

Mr. Wager rhetorically asks:

>[has] religion CAUSED problems in people
>who otherwise would have been sane, rational, and caring, or [has]
>religion at least softened people who otherwise would have been even
>more insane, irrational, and uncaring.

It's done both to different people.

When I see the guy on tv with that clown grin and glazed eye look preaching 
the
gospelofourlordjesuschristmysaviour I say "eeeewe, he's a scary dude and a 
danger to society". At the same time, when I look at a truly born-again 
ruffian, I think "he's not so scary anymore."

Like everything, used 'correctly', religion CAN be a good thing but that 
doesn't mean it IS a good thing. Its potential to fubar things has been 
more than amply demonstrated in the past few thousand years.

Mr. Bush's pledged allegiance to JC is mildly upsetting to me. His 
'followers'...hmmm a lot more so. It's hard to see, other than a difference 
in "beliefs" how the red states and the middle east are much different in 
that they do HAVE beliefs which they believe -- and are willing to die and 
kill others for. If he existed, God would be pissed.

p

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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada 

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