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Thursday, October 15, 2015

playing with matches

So you see all these people fleeing war, and your first thought is that maybe if they were white you would be willing to do something for them, and they'd probably have to be the right kind of white, I'm sure you don't want any muslims.  What didn't you have as bad as the cities down below?  I assume it involves somebody taking over.

Clearly more people are having babies than are killing each other, and while some people are starving others are doing well enough.  Surely you could figure that out by yourself.

I don't know what to say about your tractor.  Surely you could get one on the internet.  Myself I hate that.  I like to go in a store, or dealership, and have a little adventure, maybe meet some new people.  Leave with whatever I came for snug in my pocket so that I am not waiting by the mailbox all day.  I haven't heard any deer stories lately.  Last I heard you were having some problem with Old Betsy, but I think you got it fixed.

So I was leafing through a book by Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood, mainly defending religion against the charge that it causes all these wars, and you know me, I am no friend of religion, but I don't agree with blaming all wars on it.  A lot of wars have not much to do with religion, and the ones that do, I always rather expect that they would be fighting without the religion too.

I guess the defense of religion is that if you look in the books they are mainly telling people to  be nice, and that's nice, on the other hand, in the hands of man, and of course religion cannot survive outside of the hands of man, it's sometimes like a pack of matches, or maybe Old Betsy with the safety off.

What do you think?

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