Re: Christians and Santa Claus

From: Agua Girl (uknown_at_spamblock.net)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:01:30 -0800

"Iceman" <1c3m4n@chi-mafia.org> wrote in message
news:1bguwk2xqbexd.dlg@icepick.org...
> On 19 Dec 2004 06:28:45 -0800, Kim wrote:
>
> While that all sounds good, consider the Moslems, VooDoo, Satanism, native
> religions of Africa, etc. to pick out just a few of the extremes that
would
> counter his good wishes.

You should have stopped at "all that sounds good"...because it
is. Most people base their attitude about any given religion
by the people they know that claim it. You have to do what
Kim did..research the original belief system, read the writings
for yourself. Muslim teachings don't tell them to strap a bomb
to their chest and walk into a school...fanatical leaders tell
them that and claim it is what Allah wants. Lots of people
will tell you that the Bible says and eye for an eye and claim
it means that God says you can extract vengeance...but if you
read it for yourself in it's entirety you know that it teaches
what you do will be visited upon you, not that you can
do back what others do to you.
How much do you know about VooDoo? Satanism?
Native African religions? How much have you read on
your own? When you hear the word "Pagan" do you assume
witches in black hats sacrificing goats?

That's the crux of what Kim was saying, what the Dali
Lama was saying and what I was trying to say. There is
more commonality in all the spiritual teachings then there
are differences. It's only the extremes that man takes those
teachings to that differ. Religions do not teach intolerance,
religious leaders do.

AG

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