Breslin Will Get No Easter Basket This Year
- At April 07, 2004
- By Bob Howe
- In Blog Posts
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The Roman Catholic church in our precincts is under Cardinal Edward Egan. He speaks in words that belong on a wedding cake and is useless at a time like this.
We send young men to fight a worldwide religion and we haven’t heard a word from Egan, not a thought about who the other people are and why they hate us. I would say that he probably doesn’t know the first thing about Islam.
Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, Wednesday, April 7, 2004.
mckitterick
You know, it’s stories like this that drive a guy to nihilistic thoughts.
I’d like to hear what you think of a discussion I instigated a while back on my LJ? It’s about how I believe religious fundamentalism is the root of most evil, and some ways to eradicate it (well, in an SF story, anyway). Here are the discussions in order:
http://www.livejournal.com/~mckitterick/32356.html
http://www.livejournal.com/~mckitterick/33252.html
http://www.livejournal.com/~mckitterick/34333.html
Best,
Chris
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God and Man at LiveJournal
Wow, I just took a quick look at your blog: that’s got to be a novel’s worth of postings, at least. I’ll get to it, but not immediately. In the meanwhile, here are some thoughts I shared with recently: