At 15:25 03-07-2002 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: >To call all religion "pernicious nonsense" is unjustifiable overkill; >there is without question a great deal of foolishness and outright >absurdity in any religion, but what nonsense is it to ask that 'one >love one's neighbor as oneself?' Or to have compassion for the weak, >sick or poor, and to respond to the needs of those less fortunate than >oneself? Most of the major religions teach this
All that is merely a matter of common sense and decent, civilised behaviour -- I do not need *religion* to tell me to behave like that. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
