Re: Boom! and you go to Heaven

From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 22:20:38 BST

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Subject: Re: Boom! and you go to Heaven
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    > So suppose then that people are relatively easy lured into believing
    > all kind of crazy stuff, as long as the promises are great enough
    > to rationalize away any doubts regarding its truth content.
    > This is precisely the vulnerable and sorry human trait that terrorist
    > organizations eagerly tap into.

    As do religious cults....hmmm, a combined religious cult/terrorist
    organisation would be a double whammy. Now hwy has no one thought of that
    ;-0

    Alan

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