So, should we discard history because somebody is long dead? Religion was an attempt to fix problems and control people, and explain the world to people who didn't have the energy because they were too busy farming or ranching. So maybe because of scientific knowledge we may do better. I mean the socialists who wanted communism sure didn't do us any good! You having a chip on your shoulder about religion is not a great counter-example to set either. Meanwhile, if you want to bitch, bitch about something that's happening today?Christian groups step up harassment of pagan festivals (msn.com)
They must be Phillip's Phlock?Amen. -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Cc: meekerbr...@gmail.com <meekerbr...@gmail.com> Sent: Mon, Aug 22, 2022 5:25 pm Subject: Re: Christian Adolf and adolfic Christians [was: Re: What Threshold Threat of CO2] On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 4:18 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Religion didn't do a damn thing really to improve the human condition, say in >Europe. It did seem to as a practice stop formal human sacrifice, And why did religion start in the first place? Because of religion. > and eventually eliminate slavery and replaced it with serfdom, About the only religious sect that can claim credit for that are the Quakers, for nearly all the others slavery was just fine, it was a widespread practice for thousands of years but neither the old nor the New Testament says a word against it, and the Quran doesn't condemn slavery either although like the Bible it does condemn one hell of a lot of other things, and most of them were completely harmless. > who is the rightful heir to Muhammad? Who gives a shit, the man has been dead for 1500 years. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis skb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2hH3Gx9E4GGy%2B6coGxLZmPnr6ig3BkoqDZ_8fmiHHA6Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/73448660.852180.1661214728114%40mail.yahoo.com.
