Subj : An oleish one - c The Ass To : Heavy Metal From : Rachel L. Akers Date : Tue Oct 24 2000 10:09 am Me again, RLA>> Hindus Picket Boston Baptist Church HM> Unfortunately (both for us, and for Fido), this is about the only HM> echo where articles of this sort NEED to be posted. I thought it was an interesting veriation of a theme. Discrediting the Dualist "us or them" mentality... A state wide paper did a survey yesterday. One of the sections was about sprituality. So Christo-centric I felt ill. Questions like "when was the last time you went to church" - I crossed out the last few words & substituted "pray" . The list of religions offered was disturbing. 3/4 Judao-christian, then Muslim & the ever present "other". None of the Asian/sub-continent faiths was included considering the multi-cultural nature of Australia this was disturbing. I wouldn't expect a "pagan" catagory (although it is offered in the censes) but I did expect "Budism" and/or Hindi. RLA>> "If demonizing another faith and converting others is part of RLA>> the church's unifying project, then it's a sad case," she said. HM> It saddens me to see one religious group attempt to convert HM> members of a differing religious order through very thinly veiled HM> combative methods. I don't know if I'd want to be associated with a group who thought such tactics work. It's almost as if they were hoping to attract the ones who couldn't see through the thin veil. HM> However, we must also recognise that these methods are NOT the HM> methods of the majority, but of an extremely vocal (and probably HM> very charismatic) minority. In short, there's always a few bad HM> apples in every bunch. Agreed. No arguments about that from this neck of the woods. Rai --- Msged/2 4.00 * Origin: Elfwhere - The POINTy eared POINT (3:640/531.2379) .