tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post8391061485046491948..comments2023-06-16T15:35:36.718+03:00Comments on Jeha's Nail - مسمار جحا: eBay's BodyShopJehahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714767132428450071noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-19858873085323795132008-01-24T08:48:00.000+02:002008-01-24T08:48:00.000+02:00The "Marchands du Temple" you're referring to are ...The "<I>Marchands du Temple</I>" you're referring to are no the only ones who provide opium for the measses; politicians do as well. And the worse kind are those who mix politics and religion. Their opium is far more potent, and their effect deadlier.<BR/><BR/>To be sure, <B>religion will always try to mix with politics</B> to a certain extent. I feel that finding the right mix might prove to be an <A HREF="http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/2005/03/how_to_mix_reli.html" REL="nofollow">ever elusive search</A>. But that does not mean we should give up, as there are alternatives. Without throwing the <A HREF="http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/30/142211/06" REL="nofollow">baby with the bath water</A>, the mere fact of the <A HREF="http://www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm" REL="nofollow">universality of some moral principles claimed by religion</A> hints at the presence of some <A HREF="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5688/1254" REL="nofollow">deeper presence of "the right values"</A> in the human mind... Even if for the "<A HREF="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=205144" REL="nofollow">wrong reasons</A>". Personally, I have few illusions about all this talk of an <A HREF="http://jehasnail.blogspot.com/2006/09/our-country-is-all-but-destroyed.html" REL="nofollow">elusive "dialogue of religions"</A>. Worse, it risks distracting us away from the growing threat of religious encroachment on politics. This is what allows many of those "Temple Merchants" to graduate from <B>settling trinkets to trading body parts</B>... <BR/><BR/>And when the supply runs out, one shudders to think how they will <A HREF="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_de_la_Saint-Barth%C3%A9lemy" REL="nofollow">resupply</A>?Jehahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714767132428450071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-90357068946909005862008-01-23T19:19:00.000+02:002008-01-23T19:19:00.000+02:00tough you would talk about that disgusting ebay it...tough you would talk about that disgusting ebay item ...<BR/>http://cgi.ebay.fr/Saint-Charbel-of-Lebanon-Relic-Box-Special-Church-Gift_W0QQitemZ150206506263QQihZ005QQcategoryZ13770QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com