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echo: indian_affairs
to: JIM CASTO
from: SONDRA BALL
date: 1997-06-10 19:57:00
subject: Re: Religion

JC> That's precisely why I don't have a "religion". Myth and fantasy, IMHO.
JC> JK> What they find depends upon who shows them what and where "it" is too
  > JK> many times.
JC> That's called "brainwashing".
Don't the B'naHai (did I misspell that?) teach their followers that they
are not allowed to proselytize because anyone who comes to a faith by
being persuaded by someone else will leave that faith when a better
salesman comes along.
JC> Just picked up and got started in a revised book the other day. (I say
  > "revised" because it originally came out in 1980.) The title: "Facing 
West:
  > The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building". It's by Richard
  > Drinnon, who's other great work is titled: "Keeper of Concentration 
amps:
  > Dillion S. Myer and American Racism".
OK, another book added to my list of books I ought to find and read
someday.
                    Sondra
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