From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 16:17:41 MDT
Robert Coyote wrote:
>
> Is it possible that all the "atrocities" cause by Religion would just as
> likely have happened for other reasons because religion was the excuse for
> the acts, other excuses could have served the tyrants uses as substitutes?
Possibly, but Religion makes it so damn easy, as any circular argument
does. Now, relgion doesn't corner the market on circular arguments by
any stretch of the imagination, but they do seem to be the handiest for
the laziest minds, kinda like using nukes to get rid of your cockroach
problem.
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