At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 +0000 William T Goodall wrote:
>Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
>'general characteristics' of religion could be described with the pacifists
>as a footnote.[1]
>
>[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond ludicrous' without claiming that massacring
>the heathen/infidel/non-believer is the normal pattern of theocracies.
But isn't correlating religion and theocracy something of a sterotype as
well? I think that only a small minority of the religious in the world
today advocate theocracy.
JDG
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