scary things at CRTC

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 9 15:14:40 UTC 2009


Madison Kelly wrote: 

> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:12:30PM -0400, James Knott wrote:  
> >> Sorry, I didn't mean that to be an attack on you but rather those that
> >> believe their's to be the only true one.  That sort of position leads to
> >> so much violence in this world.  
> > 
> > Are there any religions that don't claim that?  I am afraid I don't know
> > them all by far.
> >   
> 
> Buddhism. Intro section to the Tipitaka starts by saying, and I 
> paraphrase, "Look, we did our best but this is a translation of an old 
> text collection from oral histories. Try to learn, but take nothing as 
> literal truth."

Well, what good is that? No one is going to kill or die for a religion like
that ;)

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J
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