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how is it that one way air tickets paid for with cash do not raise any red flags at some airline ticket counters? how is it that the flight decks of some passenger jets are open to all? how is it that el al airlines has not had a single hi-jacking in 30 years? how is it that three different and great religions originated in essentially the same small patch of eastern mediterranean soil and with essentially the same holy book = the old testament = the torah = the koran? if one believes that one is a 'soldier in god's army' fighting the 'forces of satan' in a holy war, and that if one dies a martyr while fighting them one gains instant entrance into a heavenly paradise, would one not laugh and celebrate the sight of a mighty blow struck to the 'enemy'? and would such a one not disregard as irrelevant any threats of punishment or vengeance or retaliation or retribution from the forces of satan? in the same way that an unenlightened one might describe All Muslims as 'cowardly suicide-bomber fanatics' so might one not describe All Christans as 'rabid right-to-life abortion-clinic-bomber fanatics'? how is it that the vast majority of bloody conflicts in this world, past and present, have had 'religious beliefs' as their root cause? how is it that the leaders of the protestant and catholic churches (branches of the same 'christian' religion) in ireland have not ended the troubles there? what does 'blame' mean? to whom? what does 'religion' mean? to whom? what dies 'conflict' mean? to whom? what does 'compromise' mean? to whom? janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . smail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn