From: john w {at}yahoo.com>

x-no-archive: yes
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:27:04 -0700, r{at}somis.org (òR L Measures) wrote:
 C 2007 John D Weatherly all rights reserved; no portion of this post
may be used anywhere else without written permission of the author.
>In article , john w
>{at}yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> x-no-archive: yes
>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:28:40 -0700, r{at}somis.org (òR L Measures) wrote:
>>  C 2007 John D Weatherly all rights reserved; no portion of this post
>> may be used anywhere else without written permission of the author.
>> >In article ,
>> >BrightasFire{at}Flame.com (Phlogeus) wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article ,
r{at}somis.org (òR L
Measures)
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > In article
, john w
>> >> > {at}yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > x-no-archive: yes
>> >> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:15:39 -0600,
"Pro-Humanist FREELOVER"
>> >> > >  wrote:
>> >> > >  C 2007 John D Weatherly all rights reserved;
no portion of this post
>> >> > > may be used anywhere else without written
permission of the author.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > >- - -
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > >Some interesting historical tidbits, little
>> >> > > >known or discussed in America, are
>> >> > > >presented in the following British article,
>> >> > > >with a stern warning regarding both the
>> >> > > >downsides of religious faith, and what
>> >> > >
>> >> > > No one is holding a gun to your head, FORCING
you to believe.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > And it has been pretty clearly established that
Christianity has done
>> >> > > MUCH good on this earth.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > The universities we've built, the hospitals we've built.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Just two examples.
>> >> > >
>> >> > ò  Christianity can also take credit for the first
genocide of >100k.
>> >> > (Lotario di Segni. , alias: Pope Innocent III,
Beziers, France, July
22,
>> >> > 1209)
>> >>
>> >> And the worst
>> >>
>> >> The Holocaust - manned by Christians unguided by a Church
that had drawn
>> >> up agreements and Concordats with the Devil incarnate in
Fascism and
>> >> Nazism.
>> >
>> >ò  Amen
>> >
>> >>No amount of Baptism can ever wash the Church clean of such
>> >> error, such sin. Only radical Reformation can pay that price.
>> >
>> >ò  Until the one true Church acts to rid itself of priests who plug into
>> >boy butts, people will continue to walk away.
>>
>> There is not "one true Church", and certainly the one
you evidently
>> have in mind is not a true church.
>>
>> The True Church is invisible, and consists of the true believers from
>> all over the world!
>
>ò  The worst plague in history has been organized religion.

I believe that concept "organized religion" can best be applied
to 1. the Roman Catholic religion
2. Islam

in which case, I agree with your point. Both are a plague on mankind!

john w

--- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag