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   "Dan Drake" wrote:   
      
   > How interesting. This is exactly the form of argument with which kids   
   > of a certain Christian faith -- you'd recognize its name in an instant   
   > if I gave it -- annoyed my mother in her youth, to the extent that she   
   > retold it to me years later: "If you sin, you go to Hell; but we can   
   > confess and get absolved."   
   >   
   > I am sure that any members of that well-known church who are reading   
   > this will protest that this is an abominable perversion of their   
   > faith.   
      
   But some faiths are easier to abominably pervert than others.   
      
   > I believe it.  (I'm guessing that the problem is something   
   > along these lines: if you plan in that way, you are trying to fool and   
   > manipulate God. Boy, is THAT a dumb thing to do! )  But people have   
   > said it, and it's a marvelous example of how people manage to mess up   
   > the Teachings in much the same ways, regardless of race, color, creed,   
   > or place of national origin.   
      
   If people manage to mess up the Teachings in "much the same ways"   
   regardless etc, why have torture and persecution stopped in some parts of   
   the world?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)