<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 9, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Keith Henson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I really doubt a significant number on this list think religions are<br>logical and moral. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You'd think so wouldn't you, and yet when I criticized a major world religion I received a huge amount of flack for doing so, and was even accused of being a bigot; I don't think some are quite as enlightened as they think they are. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">But you admit you have no solution to the problem of Islam, rational or otherwise.<br></blockquote><br>Actually, there are obvious solutions. They are so politically<br>unacceptable I only dare treat them in fiction.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have no idea what that means.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>You seem to be only concerned with the surface froth where my interest<br>is in the deep underlying currents.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are concerned with how this problem came to be, I am concerned with finding a solution; I have not found that solution but unlike most on this list I at least know there is a problem that needs a fixing.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>It's a difference we probably cannot bridge.<br><br>Keith<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>