-Caveat Lector-
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Hawk wrote:
>>
>> How was the religion of the South different from that of the North?
>
>The north, and particularly the northeast, was under the strong influence of
>Unitarianism, whereas the South was primarily Calvinistic....
Still voicing OPINION without FACTS, are we?
As a matter of FACT, Unitarianism is NOT prevalant here in the
Northeast...Unitarianism isn't even Christianity...
The predominant Christian religions of the North, particularly of the
Northeast, at the time of the Civil War were Congregationalists,
Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Roman Catholicism...
>However, if you say that the VietNamese Buddist monks (during the
>1960's) were
>involved in a revolution against the Catholic French, and their
>self-inceneration was a
>sign of their Buddist beliefs justified suicide as a tactic of
>revolution, you would
>not be "on a soapbox, prosyletizing PERSONAL belief" but discussing
>facts -- as you understood them,
And I believe I said as much in my paragraph immediately following (which
you so kindly included in your post), to whit:
>> Now, I COULD discuss aspects of life in a Buddhist country, and compare
>> how their political system and quality of life compare to, say, a Moslem or
>> 'Christian' country...that would be discussing FACTS...but if the discussion
>> degenerates into an argument about which religion is 'correct', then it's OT for
>this
>> list...
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