In Answer To David B Lincoln-- You're all off on the wrong point

Submitted by Seamus MacNemi (United States), Feb 16, 2008 at 23:46

When will it dawn on all of you that this problem has absolutely nothing to do with a persons religion? It has everything to do with the perversion of religious sentiment to the service of political ends. Indeed, this problem had been with us since the time of Pharoh. It was the silly bickering and petty court intrigues of the various priestly cults that prompted Anknaten to declare the Aten to be the 'ONLY" god in the Egyptian heaven.

Even today in the Church of The Holy Sepulchre the petty jealousy and intrigue and bickering are rampant in the Church. They always have a bitter arguement over who has the responsibility for the maintainence of the edifice. And the Romans always want to crawl up on everybody elses back and thump their chests in an arrogant presumption of superiority. As if theirs is the only True Church Of Christ. It makes me sick to listen to them. Is any of them a True Church of Christ? I think not!

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