From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl> Subject: RE: heaven forbid: heaven for bad Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:07:17 +0200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > Religion's misguided missiles > > Promise a young man that death is not the end and he will willingly cause disaster > > To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like > littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used. I think that saying that death is the end caused far greater disasters than killing ten thousands people, think only of the unbeliever comrade Stalin, which starved to death eight millions peasants, of his own country. "To create a revolution is easy, but to change the soul of a people is difficult indeed." "Collectivities have always given way before active sectaries." From: Gustave Le Bon, The Psychology of the Revolution Become what you are! Jethro, Priest of On <http://members.home.nl/tgeorgescu> Intellect Club mailgroup at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Intellect_Club> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Intellect_Club -----Original Message----- From: owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Pennamacoor Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2001 13:58 To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: heaven forbid: heaven for bad fellow civilised humans an interesting article from Richard Dawkins appeared in the Guardian today... hope this is appropriate:
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> Religion's
misguided missiles
>
> Promise a young man that death is not
the end and he will willingly cause disaster
>
> To
fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like
> littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are
used.
I think that saying that death is the end caused far greater disasters than killing ten thousands people, think only of the unbeliever comrade Stalin, which starved to death eight millions peasants, of his own country.
"To create a revolution is easy, but to change the soul of a people is difficult indeed."
"Collectivities have always given way before active sectaries."
From: Gustave Le Bon, The Psychology of the Revolution
Become what you are!
Jethro, Priest of On
Intellect Club mailgroup at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Intellect_Club
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fellow civilised humans
an interesting article from Richard Dawkins appeared in the Guardian today...
hope this is
appropriate: