Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George: It has little to do with clean slates. There are people and countries in the world, and some Americans, who truly believe that America is the Great Satan. Why you might say? Well, it's because we are a secular country with no state religion, we have movies, songs, and other entertainment which they consider immoral, and our way of living is considered by them to be a threat. So, Ariel Sharon's provocation's and America's support of Israel are not the main reasons that we are under attack, things that we did in WWII are not the reason either... it's because we are happily successful with our secularism, our way of living and our entertainment and that GOD doesn't seem to be punishing us for it. So, the extremists believe that they have to become the instruments of God... much like John Brown before the US Civil War. And no, I don't think that you should shut up. Jim George Lottermoser wrote: > > jim@hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)9/12/017:54 PM > > > George, it's commendable to be for peace but please don't > fabricate > > facts to justify yourself. > > Please accept my apologies for any fabrication on my part. I'm > simply trying to hold in my own mind the "fact" that none of us > (countries) have a clean slate in these regards, and I'm > obviously doing a poor job of sharing those thoughts. I'll shut > up. > > George