Rick Froman
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:01:57 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Nagelbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings On the other side, perhaps, what about the Japanese who "willingly" flew suicide missions during WWII? ------------------------------ Also, what of the fact that there are many religions that believe in an afterlife not represented on the list of suicide bombers? If belief in an afterlife is the crucial element, wouldn't you expect to see a number of Christian terrorist suicide bombers? The IRA and abortion clinic bombers are usually some distance away when their bombs go off. It seems that, in addition to believing in an afterlife, you must also believe that killing other people is going to make you worthy of great rewards in that afterlife. And that narrows down the religious ideologies to a very few (not even including the great majority of Muslims). Rick Dr. Richard L. Froman Psychology Department John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone and voice mail: (501)524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/sbs/psych/froman.htm