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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] why am I not surprised?
  • Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:49:04 -0500

I'm sure Christians as well as aetheists guilty of violence.

I've even heard of some Muslims guilty of violence in the name of religion.
;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Czeiszperger [mailto:michael AT czeiszperger.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:39 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] why am I not surprised?
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:
>
> > I have a close friend whose car is permanently damaged from
> egging just
> > before the election. Her Bush '04 sticker was ripped off. Stupid
> > people
> > exist on both sides of the isle.
>
> By all accounts there was election vandalism by both sides. But that
> is political, and I'm talking about religious violence. I
> believe that
> christians are guilty of all sorts of violence against any
> they believe
> are deserving of punishment, wether it be killing doctors or
> threatening atheist children with knives, all the way down to simple
> vandalism. The study on religious violence I read based on crime
> statistics showed relatively few incidents of violence or vandalism
> against christians compared to other religions. The vast majority of
> religious violence in the US is actually performed by christians
> against Jews and Muslims.
>
> http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/downey_24_4.htm
>
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> Chapel Hill, NC USA
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