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Robert--your political leanings are showing! But certainly today's
mass
murders are using religious excuses and religious enticements to get
people
to strap bombs to their bodies. But..when has it not been so?
Nothing is
new other than the tactics of terrorism and nothing has
fundamentally
changed in this country from when Europeans waged war on the
natives, to
when they waged war on the 'homeland', to when we waged war on each
other,
to when we returned to waging war on Europe, to when we waged war on
Asians,
etc., etc. And of course turn everything around (Europe waging war
on
America, etc.)--there are no clear-cut heroes or demons here (well
maybe
Hitler but the rest of Europe was largely responsible for his rise).
It is my humble opinion that we would all be much more careful of
our lives
and in doing so of every other person's life if we really could
grasp that
these few decades of existence are all there is! No umpteen
virgins, no
golden castles, no fairy-tale endings. What you have is what you
get--so
make the best of it--and to do that, you need to treat the people
around you
with dignity and respect.
Rick
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Richard W. Tarara
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Indiana
rtarara@saintmarys.edu
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Bob this movement exist, it's called Humanism. And the notion that
we need
theism to have civilized behavior is like saying we need Hitler for
good
government. Seems to me that that those countries with the least
religious
influence are by far the most civilized. The decent of the United
States
into
promoting and committing torture and mass murder has coincided with
the
increased
influence of religion in Government.
Bob Zannelli
_http://www.americanhumanist.org/index.html_
(http://www.americanhumanist.org/index.html)