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From: scott@normac.UUCP (Scott Bryan)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Dark Ages
Message-ID: <121@normac.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 05:03:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 05:03:56 1984
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Reply-To: scott@unix.UUCP (Scott Bryan)
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In article <> danw@oliven.UUCP (danw) writes:
>
> 
> Subject: Creationists are not stupid
>  The question i would like to see addressed is:
> 			Are they dangerous? 
> ( Did the dark ages just happen? 
>   Did many of these well meaning, but frightened, individuals knowingly
>   help further the development of this ideological holocaust ? 
>   Could thinking people haved stopped it?
>   Could it happen again?  )
> 						danw
>
>Your questions are provoking.  Would you please expand on them a bit
>so I more clearly see the direction of your argument?  In what way do
>you see creationists as directly responsible for the dark ages?

YOU WANT EXAMPLES ...

How about India TODAY!   Or are we restricted to talking about YOUR religion.
No religion isn't killing anyone directly, but somehow a whole hell of a lot
of people have died in it's name, and that's close enough for me to wonder
why a personal belief (that noone can take away from you anyway) is worth
dying, killing, or even arguing about?

Can't religious people understand that its insulting for other religious
people to be told about the wonders of their religion.  It's like being called
an idiot for not seeing a wonderful beautiful thing right in front of you and
for believing in blasphemy.  If I were religious that would probably be grounds
for hating someone.

In liu of this and the fact that religion is an incredibly personal experience
in any case, I fail to see why the truly religious person wouldn't consider
the most reasonable position to be to keep their religious beliefs a secret
or something to be shared between close friends.

Scott Bryan