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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:47:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Alan Spector" <spector@calumet.purdue.edu>
Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu
Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu
To: revs@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: on gods and racial/ethnic violence...

   The discussion about the existence of a supreme being and the problem of
evil was started in the context of a discussion about racial violence.  I
think that the discussion is useful for the REVS network, but I would ask
that it be tied in a little more to issues of the Holocaust/Rwanda, etc.
E-mail lends itself to chatty, informal, philosophical comments which can be
helpful in developing insights.  On the other hand, when the topic becomes a
little too "chatty" and strays a little too far from the main point, it can
cause some members to decide that the volume of irrelevant mail is not worth
their time.  People don't usually leave e-mail networks because they are
angry; they leave because they are overloaded.  As I said, I think the
discusion has been interesting; I just don't want it to stray too far from
the focus of this list.

Thanks to all for your participation, and for those who have a vacation of
some sort approaching, I hope it is a good one.

Alan Spector

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Alan Spector, Ph.D.                 Phone: 219-989-2387
Behavioral Sciences Department      FAX  : 219-989-2008
Purdue University Calumet           E-Mail: SPECTOR@CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU
Hammond, IN  46323   USA

{Editor of REVS--- an international email network for
                   Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies}
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