On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:42:11 +0100, Hils wrote:

On 29/08/16 07:38, wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:17:01 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

Always amuses me the division between the various christian factions who
seem to think of each other almost as seperate religions, whereas in fact
the only real differences are slight variations in the mumblings and which
old geezer in a dress is in charge.

Yup, it's hard for an outsider to make any sense of it. But at least they
don't seem to hate each other with the same murderous passion as the Shias
and Sunnis.

I take it you have never been in Glasgow in the vicinity of those
attending a match between Celtic and Rangers.

Or, presumably, read of the treatment meted out by pre-reformation
Papists to anyone who dissented in the slightest way from their
totalitarian, superstitious, theocratic crap.

The sooner the Abrahamic superstitions are erased from the Earth, the
better.

People don't need religion to be superstitious or xenophobic.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Charles Ellson wrote:

People don't need religion to be superstitious or xenophobic.

This is true. Religion sure does help though.

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