On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 17:21:09 GMT, Ted Edwards
wrote:

Ken Davey wrote:

The next time one of the 'representatives' of (insert the religious
organization de-jour) knocks on your door invite him to expound on his/her
ideas -

My Father-in-law had an interesting way of dealing with such
"visitors". He asked them:
How many wars have been sarted over religion?
How many wars have been fought over mathematics?

The "visitors" exhibited a tendency to be elsewhere. :-)

Ted

The trouble/problem with most/all religions is that they pre-empt
personal decision making and personal responsibility.

A devout anybody has become enslaved to the rules and regulations as
laid forth in the texts. There is comfort in following these texts
for many people, as it absolves them of the difficulty of answering
the Difficult Questions and absolves them therefore of any
responsibility for the outcome of their actions.

At the moment they surrender their free will to the dogma, they cease
to be a human being and become a robot. They, at this point, are
philosophically DEAD. All that's now left is for the body to catch up
with the mind, which has already perished at this point.

Lg