[Buddha-l] NYTimes.com: Let Us Pray for Wealth

[curt]

Richard Hayes wrote:
>
> Human beings are human beings. No group of people has a monopoly on 
> unwholesomeness, and no group of people has done, on a whole, much better 
> than anyone else. 

Richard is asserting that there is simply no reliable criterion for 
distinguishing between religions. But, unfortunately, there is. It is 
the "extirpation test". All religions other than Christianity and Islam 
score a big fat "zero" on that test - which is the only passing grade.

I feel sorry for people who are unable to see religious persecution as 
the aberration it truly is - and who blandly insist that it is somehow 
just an inevitable part of being "human".

Curt Steinmetz