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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