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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Gary Britt
date: 2004-08-07 22:25:46
subject: Re: The EU Atheist Sloth Ethic

From: "Gary Britt" 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
in message news:411555e3{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:411537d1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> > news:4115330c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Pretty interesting stuff.  I guess we Americans don't have to start
> > quaking
> > > in our boots any time soon about Adam's vaunted EU juggernaught.
> > LMAO!!!!
> >
> > This statistic is very surprising to me: "Fewer than a fifth of
> > Britons say they would be willing to die for their
> > beliefs, compared with 71 per cent of Americans."
>
> I'm not British, but I have a possible explanation as for myself at least:
> Beliefs schmeliefs, I mean, what the hell, I'll "believe"
anything to stay
> alive. Hello, I'll believe something else tomorrow, after whatever
threatens
> me is gone.

That's how Europe and many European Jews embraced Nazism, with just that
kind of thinking.  You may be on your way there again.  I certainly hope
not, but if there isn't anything worth fighting and dying for, then it just
takes a madman with some goons to make slaves out of you all once again.

Better think about it.

Gary

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