From: MARYLY@aol.com
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 04:24:02 GMT
Subj: Re: Islam and Violence
Date: 12/7/2002 8:25:21 PM Central Standard Time
From: <A HREF="mailto:MARYLY">MARYLY</A>
To: <A HREF="mailto:memetics@mmu.ac.uk">memetics@mmu.ac.uk</A>
I sent this comment (below) yesterday, and it was returned to me. Perhaps I
do not understand the nature of your online journal. Is participation
limited to the 4-5 of you?
If so, please let me know. Thank you.
Just a thought from a lowly college prof: there has always been a difference
between "religion" and "spirituality." Francis of Assisi was spiritual
first, but given the time in which he lived, did his best to assuage the
Church. Churches are institutions, and as such, do indeed exist to
perpetuate themselves.
Religion was the primary enforcer of social norms for centuries in Europe and
the East. Has that changed? Isn't the Islamic jihad a recursion to that
attitude?
maryly
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