On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> The predictability of lbo-talk carpet-chewing on the subject of
> religion
> fortunately detracts not at all from its entertainment value. It's
> like the
> old Three Stooges routine: Nii-agara Falls! Slooowly I turned...
> One never
> tires of it.
>
> Still, I rather wonder: if one is really "over" religion -- if one
> really
> regards it as just folly from start to finish, and has no emotional
> engagement with it -- whence all this heat? Wouldn't one just
> regard it the
> way one regards people reading their horoscopes?
I suspect the discussions of religion would be a lot less frequent and a lot less heated if one particular listmember didn't post so obsessively on the topic. Ditto Iran. I'm no fan of religion, but I don't see much point in bringing it up every day.
Doug