<BretCahill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Part of the problem these days in the U.S. is an excess of religion.
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> Fundamentalism is despotism, NOT a religion.
"It is not the strength of their love, but the impotence
of their love, that prevents modern Christians from
burning us at the stake."
-Nietzsche
Anyway, your statement above is like saying a
dolphin is a cetacean, not a cetacean.
The truth of the matter is that, historically, religion
is despotism, as bad as the worst modern theofascist
state. Modern attenuated emasculated milquetoast
religion, that can seemingly even tolerate the First
Amendment, is the exception not the rule for religions
in general.
And even modern religion, which attempts to steal
precious hours out of your sleeping-in time on the
weekend, when you should be recovering from the
orgiastic baccanalia of the night before. That's
despotism.
Anyway, Dionysus is the one true god, and anybody
who says "Jehovah" is going to get stoned.
Bong hits for Dionysus, the one truly _higher_ power.
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