----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> "It came from religion. Religion is also, of course, the underlying
source
> of the divisiveness in the Middle East which motivated the use of
this
> deadly weapon in the first place. But that is another story and not
my
> concern here. My concern here is with the weapon itself. To fill a
world
> with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering
the
> streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used."
>
> [Full text:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4257777,00.html]
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That both Islam and Christianity [in it's earlier manifestations] condemned usury rather unequivocally, as did many who espoused social revolution, should not be lost on us if we are to espouse a materialist analysis of last week....
Ian