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> "Leo Sgouros" archangels.mil> wrote in message
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>> "Sean" now.com.au> wrote in message
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>>> "Carl Sagan's billions" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>> When I was younger I struggled very hard and for several years
>>>> trying to understand Christianity,

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>>> Well, that was your first mistake. :)
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>>> From that, everything else below follows.
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>> So did you end up Islamic, or what?Or is the problem with that and
>> Judaism up next in your narrative?

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> You see 2 lines as a "narrative"? wow!
> :

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>> Those two parts of the overall larger Abrahamic belief system are at
>> separate parts of a larger mosaic, the Islamic branch still floundering
>> in what Benjamin Barber calls the "resource imperative", where master and
>> slave are both bound by ineffiiciencies , and the Judaism branch is
>> largely in an information-collection mode, having to do with a national
>> destiny in change and a "pause" mode, evidenced by a Kadima leader
>> *literally* pausing from a critical time of governance.

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> Um, how about they are all pretty much the same and cut from the same
> cloth. Therefore their adherents pretty well operate from the same
> psychology -- but that's a generality. I'm not interested in gettinginto
> details, or judgements. It's just imho, and that's it. Make your choices.
> But I still hold to my previous response. :)
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> THX
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