Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 2004/03

From: "Forest Aten" <forest_aten@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Necessity of Atheism
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:14:42 -0500


>
> That's the point. If they had used logic instead, maybe they would not
> have done all that killing.
>
>

I think you missed the point.
I wasn't asking about their logic....but for yours.

> >Motives? Only two? lust/power???
>
> Those are the biggies ("greed and lust for power" ), but, of course, there
> are plenty of others, NONE of them involving religious piety. People who
> actually LIVE in accordance with their religious tenets use them as a
brake
> on their desires, not an excuse to act upon them.
>

Wow....
So no one has ever killed/murdered in the name of God? (religious piety?)
Most of the people that I've encounted that are/were "religious", are/were
hypocrites. I know very few people that "live in accourdance with their
religious tenets". How about you? How many people do you know that do
without exception? That use the "brake" every time?

> >Who's "they".
>
> YOU brought it up, so I assumed YOU knew who was doing all the killing in
> the name of religion.
>

No...you used "they" in reference and I asked who you were referring to?
(about a dozen times in the paragraph that I referred) I just wondered which
"they" YOU were referring to.

> In any case, this HAS been very much off-topic for a long time. If you
> would like to go on, I would be happy to continue off-list.
>

I'll let it rest.

>
> Bill Hausmann
>

Forest Aten