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Subject: 
Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:08:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ben Roller writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > > > Last recorded words of the Columbine killers, "We are going to a better
> > > > place." Not the words of atheists. • ...
> > I didn't mention christian.  It makes them religious.  You were indicating
> > that they did what they did because they lacked religion.
> 
> Maybe they thought that life was so terrible that death was better than the
> hell that was their life.  For some people nowhere is a better place.
> 
> Not that I think they were non-religious, I just don't think that their
> statement "proves" it.  It's hard for me to imagine what religion they • believed
> in that meant they were going to a better place.
> 
> Ben Roller

A valid oservation.  You may well be right, but then they were pretty messed up
to do what they did.  Logical thought doesn't seem to have been their long
suit.  I do think it indicates that they weren't raised in a religious vacumn.

Bruce



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(...) ... (...) Maybe they thought that life was so terrible that death was better than the hell that was their life. For some people nowhere is a better place. Not that I think they were non-religious, I just don't think that their statement (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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