From: "Robert Comer" 

> Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is that?

The idea is to fight for one's beliefs at all costs -- it's a slightly
different concept.

But anyway, what good is living if you have to give up all that's important
to you?  I would fight and if necessary die for what I believe in without a
second thought.

It looks like we have a real and tangible difference in attitude between
the U.S. and Europe -- we're (the U.S.) are far more like the Arabs than we
are you.  (Not saying that's bad btw, just very curious, since a good
portion in the U.S. are of European stock.)

- Bob Comer


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> "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. I think it's just too vague of an idea to die for
"beliefs",
> and
> I also think that the 71 percent of Americans who say they'd die for their
> beliefs have not really thought about what it means.
>
> Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is that?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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