Re: American health care best? No...Most expensive? Yes...Ranked 12th

From: Mun_ Between The Stones (mun_at_mail.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:24:41 -0400

On 5 Jul 2004 18:20:26 -0700, sbharris@ix.netcom.com (Steve Harris
sbharris@ROMAN9.netcom.com) wrote:

>You see, there are all kinds of religions and many of them don't
>accept Jesus as god. And the ones that do, can't even agree on what
>Jesus is suggesting is the best thing to do. Like join the Mormons or
>the Roman Catholics, or whatever. Which is a mighty peculiar situation
>if there's an objective personage there which everybody's seeing. At
>minimum AT LEAST most of the people getting messages from "Jesus" are
>self-deluded, simply because the messages are in direct conflict. I'm
>suggesting that they ALL are self-deluded, which is the simplest
>explanation of all.

Simple but inaccurate.

Religion is made for and by man; if it weren't flawed, now THAT would
be worth a discussion.

Pointing to religion as a means to discredit Christ is a flawed
premise to begin with, Steve.
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