X-Message-Number: 17745
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:23:51 -0700
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: SCIENCE V/S RELIGION  

Thank you so much, Ruthanna!  Your post is much like the one I 
would have written if I had felt I had the time to spare.
Yours was much more compelling than mine woud have been, because 
you have much more recent firsthand experience of religious
practices than I do.  More informative, too!

Ruthanna R Gordon <> wrote:
> The only belief I am against here is the fanatic
> certainty that one's own way of thinking is the right way, and all the
> ills of the world can be blamed on someone thinking differently

I have heard this referred to as "otrowism" -- fanatical 
dedication to the One True Right and Only Way.  Maybe we non-
combatants could aid in the War on Terrorism by expanding it into 
a War on Otrowism.  Talk about changing the world!
-- 
May you live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Kennita Watson          | Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
     |   None but ourselves can free our minds.
http://www.kennita.com  |           -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

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