Re: [slug-chat] Seen today somewhere out near Parramatta...

[Nick Croft <nicko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, invisible ink wrote:

> Dude with sign:
> 
>   "Jesus died for your sins."
> 
> Dude with sign about a hundred metres further on:
> 
>   "And all you got was this lousy traffic."
> 
> :) Hurrah for holidays care of the dominant religion!

Aside from the Inquisitions, Bosnia and other mistakes not
necessarily attributable to Christ's teaching, Judaeo-Christian
societies have produced individual freedom, democracy (yes,
a pre-Christian idea), trade-unionism, benevolent agencies
like the Red Cross, most advances in medicine and science and
society generally, etc ...

Slug-chatters are invited to knock me down with a list of the
achievements of Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and atheism other
than the Taj Mahal (doesn't help everyone), yoga, chopsticks
or prawn-laksa.

Care to move to Iraq? Or Peking? Ankara?

Why do people from non-Christian societies risk their lives
to move to Australia the U.S. England, Germany? Why don't people
from Christian societies rush to move to countries where Easter 
isn't celebrated?

Nick