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  "thread": {
    "id": 4379,
    "subject": "urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2005-03-22T09:36:32+00:00",
    "last": "2005-03-22T09:36:32+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<8b.23c58e6b.2f71b173@aol.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "PMorris33 at aol.com",
        "address": "pmorris33 at aol.com"
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      "date": "2005-03-22T09:36:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8",
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          "text": "In a message dated 3/22/2005 8:07:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, \nurth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes:\nBecause we've all heard the story before.  All 3 major Western religions \nare built on events in\nwhich either God Himself, or members of the religion with God's approval \nand help, kill bunches\nof other people.  The holy books which are taught to us since childhood \nand inform our culture\napprove of the killing.  So of course when somebody else comes along and \nsays he had to kill a\nbunch of people for a supreme being we find nothing unusual.\n\nWas Wolfe thinking of this?  It makes some sense if we view Urth as \nstuck in a sort of pre-Old\nTestament mode, when things were done that way.\n\nEnamel\nI think this is a very good point.  Sam Harris, perhaps the dean of American \nsecularists, has been writing about the peculiar blindnesses of our various \nreligious heritages for some time now. it is useful to examine the writings of a \ngreat fantasist such as Wolfe to see how arbitrary and cruel our own systems \nof belief are.  Or rather how Christianity and Islam can be used by cruel \npeople.  \n\nBy the way, has anyone in Lupine circles heard about the new book in the \nLatro series?  \n\nPippen."
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