> -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 10:07 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Christian's: Paranoid or not > > you know what, I agree with Sam here. I'm not the most religious person > and > I don't practice at ALL but I'm a bit incredulous about the rants I > have > seen here. Yes, religion has been the excuse for a lot of evil deeds. > We get > it. But there is nothing inherent in religion which leads to evil; on > the > contrary. The fact that people pervert calls for loving their brother > into > reasons to kill him has more to do with human nature imho than religion > itself.
I think it's human nature to feel set upon. There's a famous study that illustrates this to an extent. People were asked to hit each other - but only as hard as the previous person hit them. Universally people hit others harder than they were hit in the first place. Lately there's been a lot of attacks on atheism and I'll happily admit that I've probably struck back harder than was necessary. This may also have to do with my moving from a very open, generally humanist community to a rather closed, religious community. I make no apologies for defending my position, when it's questioned, as vigorously or as passionately as I can. I do however, sincerely, apologize if I've been seen to attack religion (or religious people) without prior cause. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247851 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
