From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 12:16:06 GMT
At 11:24 PM 8/12/02 EST, you wrote:
>Subj: Re: Islam and Violence
> Date: 12/7/2002 8:25:21 PM Central Standard Time
> From: MARYLY
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
> Is participation limited to the 4-5 of you?
> Thank you.
>
No Maryly, But it must look that way sometimes :~)
>
> 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
>
And Yes to your question
Jeremy
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