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Re: Religion is to blame
- Subject: Re: Religion is to blame
- From: Jeffrey Goldberg <{$news}$@goldmark.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:36:08 -0700
- In-Reply-To: <9nq2qt$25a$1@uranium.btinternet.com>
- Newsgroups: uk.current-events.us-bombing
- References: <9nq2qt$25a$1@uranium.btinternet.com>
- Reply-To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey+news@goldmark.org>
On Sep 13, 2001 atheist <atheist@btinternet.com> wrote
in <9nq2qt$25a$1@uranium.btinternet.com>:
> Subject: Religion is to blame
Just last week this has been a subject of debate on uk.philosophy.atheism
I won't repeat what I've written there, except to say that religion plays
a role as a proxy for other differences that people are really fighting
about.
Someone quoted a story of a friend in NI who wrote "atheist" as his
religion on some official form and was told it wasn't specific enough.
They needed to know whether he was a "Protestant atheist" or a "Catholic
atheist". I take that is an illustration of my point that the religious
beliefs have nothing to do with the actual conflict.
I too am an athiest, and I blame religion for a lot of things. But I
think it is getting a bad rap here.
-j
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