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Tara,
What a saint you are.
I for one thank you for this post. I was astounded that June complained to
my isp and barely noticed Ali. I feel June's flaming was scads worse
since she taunted me and challenged me about my knowledge of the Koran, which is
zero firsthand and a bit more secondhand. I answered as a way of
discussion then she flamed. Or, perhaps, soapboxed emotionally. I
felt she deliberately trapped me whereas Ali just flat out called me
names. To me there is a big difference. Also June and I had a heated
exchange in the past over Christianity, perhaps there is an element of unhealed
wounds.
I think the problem with
religion and this list is that most of us have strongly-held opinions, whether
they represent truth or not, in areas where there are no easily accessible
answers. Mix in some strong personalities to go with those strong beliefs
and you have a receipe for the freest of exchanges.
Anyway, about Koresh I
believe he was too deluded to see he was jeopardizing people's lives (not the
sexual abuse of the women, I'm talking about when he would not let people leave
when the PTB were ready to cream the place). Similar to Christian
Scientists who let their kids die for lack of caring medical attention or
Hyperfaith Christians who let ther kids die for lack of caring medical attention
- and ps l am born again Christian. It doesn't matter how much of the
Bible one knows, or Koran one knows, one can still do wrong things and be
convinced he she is doing right things. Like my boss.
Thanks again Tara, you
helped me alot.
Foxter
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