Dear list, I might respond to other threads but just now wanted to stir the pot about a news story heard this morning. National Public Radio
announced results of a survey which, in a nut's hell, says politics is blamed for the world's ills more than religion.
I object.
The two are blurred. The difference between religion and politics is participation in policy formation by the grassroots. In religion, policy is formed more by quasi-elite
(and less accountable) persons and is less likely to change. Religion is by definition more conservative. The war in Iraq was a case of a more religious government attacking a less religious government, but it does not follow that
all religious governments are warlike or that less religious ones are all brutal.

• umm... no - emperor_alikar - October 16, 2003 - 18:27 UTC
  • Aaron Viviano, are you 20 years old yet? - quiet - October 18, 2003 - 01:51 UTC
    • that should have read "practically no " - quiet - October 18, 2003 - 01:53 UTC
    • Simple. - emperor_alikar - October 18, 2003 - 03:12 UTC
      • Not so simple - stormcrow - October 19, 2003 - 04:13 UTC
        • Wow, Well said, Mario And.... - sillyuniverse - October 19, 2003 - 15:48 UTC
        • not really not so simple - emperor_alikar - October 20, 2003 - 05:30 UTC
          • Politics and religion go hand-in-hand - stormcrow - October 20, 2003 - 23:05 UTC
            • Your own definitions of politically or religiously liberal ? - quiet - October 22, 2003 - 19:17 UTC
              • Maybe.... - stormcrow - October 23, 2003 - 00:39 UTC
                • actually the nazis were liberal - emperor_alikar - October 23, 2003 - 01:34 UTC
                  • I consider that a personal attack on America's Founding Fathers - carefuluniverse - October 23, 2003 - 03:56 UTC
                  • Explain. - stormcrow - October 23, 2003 - 17:57 UTC
                    • True - carefuluniverse - October 24, 2003 - 04:09 UTC