Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA01823 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:16:06 GMT Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:11:44 -0800 Message-Id: <200201180711.g0I7Biq28424@mail17.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.160.162] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: An Interesting Article Concerning Religious Belief After 9/11 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
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> memetics@mmu.ac.uk "Francesca S. Alcorn" <unicorn@greenepa.net> Re: An Interesting Article Concerning Religious Belief After 9/11Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>>Go to:
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>>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001602822,00.html
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>The last statement scares me:
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>"When it comes to the relationship between modern man and religious
>faith, the century now beginning may prove make-up-your-mind time. I
>hope so."
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>As a quiet agnostic in the US, surrounded by a resurgence of
>Christianity in some of its' more frightening forms, I hope *not*. I
>hope we will quietly go along with whatever uneasy truce we have
>managed to work out, and not loose too much ground while Bush is
>President.
>
>The only good thing I have seen in this vein was Bush getting up in
>front of the American public and defending Muslims. I really respect
>him for doing that. I wonder what he had to tell his right-wing
>Christian backers to smooth that particular one over.
>
Didn't you hear about Fallwell and Robertson on the 700 Club? Fundie Xtians and fundie Muslims, as both literal believers in related book-based strains of patriarchal monotheism, have much that they agree on.
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