Theos-Talk Archives (July 1996 Message tl00570)

Alan,
But it is people who make up a religion.  It does not come full blown from
the void, but rather is a manifestation of the ideas of a bunch of people and
all religions have in their basic nature something that makes people behave
very badly towards each other, the idea that there is only one truth and they
are the ones who have it.
Now it is true that not everyone who ascribes to religion will have that bit
of nastiness in them, but because it is in an inherint part of the religious
process, it is going to show up somewhere and usually get somebody, or lots
of somebodies, killed.

Chuck the Heretic