<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 9/14/01 3:40:12 PM !!!First Boot!!!, nix@iolinc.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I feel it is time to outlaw and shun governments or
<BR>organizations based on religious ideologies. When a body can sanction
<BR>and support attacks against civilians and children based on a difference
<BR>in beliefs, that body is no longer eligible to participate in the
<BR>affairs of state of the Human race. . . . These groups must be rooted out and ended by law and social customs in all lands of the planet. I make no
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<BR>While I understand your sentiment behind this, let me just say that forbidding governments based on religion, in your words, making them "no longer eligible to participate in the affairs of the Human race," will nto help matters.
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<BR>The actions that these terrorists did go directly against the teachings of *every* major world religion.
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<BR>You cannot hate all Muslims based on the actions of certain terrorists groups any more than you can hate all Christians based on the actions of the KKK.
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<BR>What our world needs at this time is *less* secularization, *more* respect for religious traditions, and more religion in our culture and society. Not less of it.
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<BR>Aye,
<BR>Eogan
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<BR>Tighearn Eoghan Og mac Labhrainn, CP
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