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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 02:07 PM
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19. At one level
it will cool down when both the Koran and the Torah are stripped of super-natural and science fiction and things that require blind faith to accept -- kind of like "Jefferson's Bible" which is characterized by the noted Unitarian-Universalist theologian, Forrest Church, as

In 1794, President Thomas Jefferson set out to uncover the essence of true religion from the Gospels by extracting Jesus' message of absolute love and service from the annunciation, virgin birth, and even the resurrection. Completed in 1819, this little book is the result of Jefferson's efforts.


At another level it will cool down when religious fundamentalists of all flavors (Haredi, Wahabi, Evangelical) realize that the true path to "salvation" and "God's Grace" or whatever is through "Good Works" and not "Faith" and concomitantly realize that fundamentalist religion is, as Karl Marx wrote, an opium that takes our eyes off of the blind, the lame, the sick, the hungry, and the oppression -- to focus on the "salvation" or "God's Grace" through "faith."

And probably some water redistribution, and concomitantly some sharing of the oil riches with the Palestinian (and Arabian) proletariat whose birthright that oil is.
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