From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 1 5: 0:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A952537B405 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 05:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f91C0RY26416; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:00:27 +0200 (CEST) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: fundamentalism (was Re: helping victims of terror) Message-ID: <1001937627.3bb85adb50217@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:00:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Robert Clark , Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <1001463692.3bb11f8ccca43@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010926104925.A318@lpt.ens.fr> <1001617805.3bb3798d9bd0f@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010930131707.A1004@darkstar.gte.net> <1001932037.3bb845057872f@webmail.neomedia.it> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.170.196 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Salvo Bartolotta writes: > > I am afraid that the two world wars had little to do with religion; > > and a good number of other more "limited" wars have nothing to do > > with religion. Nationalism/race (cf "lebensraum" ~ "living space") > > makes an excellent pretext (cf world war II); [more or less > > "scientific"] ideology makes another. > > You mean to say that those aren't religions?! Nice remark. I would say that the negation of religion may be pursued with religious zeal (!), ideology replacing religion. Yes, those who [believe that they] possess The One Truth may be as zealous and dangerous as fundamentalists. Nowadays, Freedom of Thought is real luxury. -- Salvo P.S. Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas. --Salvo Bart^W^WOscar Wilde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message