From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 00:01:02 MDT
From: Spudboy100@aol.com
You think robbers murders and rapists spend an inordinate time thinking about God and praying, before a crime?
***The question was not whether they spend an inordinate time thinking about god and praying, but whether they were believers in a supernatural force in the first place.
***But maybe the "black collar criminals" (e.g., Catholic priests who have molested boys and some girls) have spent some time praying ... or perhaps even going to confession ... who knows what evil lurked (and lurks) in some of those chaps' minds!
You seem to be painting the religious with a broad brush, and that view does not seem to click with reality.
***No matter how you slice and dice it, religion is what doesn't click with reality. In any case, here is an interesting discourse on religion and what it may have/may not have contributed to civilization, by Bertrand Russell:
http://www.luminary.us/russell/religionciv.html
***In more recent history (going back some hundreds of years) religions have done much to retard scientific progress. This has been only one of the more tragic consequences of religions. There have others. And it's all been for naught.
Olga
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