Re: [ST] a simple request

["Mike Benzon" <fast87@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Chris, for saying what I guess I didn't say so well.
Mike Benzon
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Strizver" <strizver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: RE: [ST] a simple request


> Oh geez...should I get into this? Probably not, but I've waited so long.
>
> I personally have a disliking to organized religion, but have no beef with
> the people for who find something they need in it. As for your examples, I
> must wonder how many of them were built with slave labor or war spoils in
> the name of some god or another.
>
> I suppose that it isn't religion that I dislike or religion that caused
this
> massacre. Rather it is a few of the humans who pervert the religion to
their
> own evil purposes.
>
> -Chris Strizver
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx]  On Behalf Of
> Harries, Mort
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:06 PM
> To: 'ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [ST] a simple request
>
>
> > In case you hadn't noticed, it's religion that has brought us to this
> > wonderful state of affairs we enjoy today.  Take a look into that!
> >
>
> Anyone who thinks religion is what caused this week massacre, cannot
ignore
> or fail to mention some of the _real_ legacies of religion.  Try these for
> starters:
> The Pyramids
> The Parthenon
> The temples at Angkor Wat
> The Sistine Chapel
> Michaelangelo's David
> The great cathedrals of Europe
> The cantatas and fugues of JS Bach
> The King James Bible (it includes some of the greatest prose ever written
in
> English whether you believe it or not)
> innumerable hospitals, schools & colleges around the world founded and
> financned by churches, mosques and synagogues
>
>
> Need I go on?  Whatever your beliefs,  the world would be a lot poorer and
> duller place without religion.
>
>
> Mort Harries
> Haworth NJ
> '00 ST
>
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