<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Subj: <B>Re: (no subject)</B>
<BR>Date: 9/16/2001 2:35:10 PM Central Daylight Time
<BR>From: Blaroli
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<BR>As you know, since its inception Christianity has been anticultural, going against the grain of immediate physical response to violence and horror. Who, before Christianity, ever heard, or said "turn the other cheek"?
<BR>Our fight should be of a different kind.... with our spiritual values at the forefront rather than arms. Victory through such means is sure to be more lasting.
<BR>I understand that we must respond to what has happened, but I do hope that we do so with intelligence and restraint rather than with dangerous passion. One of the ministers at the National Cathedral religious service said that we should act in a measured and humane way, "lest we become the evil that we deplore". That is all I wish for.
<BR>I have asked Linda to remove me from the Camino list. I just can't bear to read some of the hate-laden messages there. Few as they are, and the exception rather than the rule, under the circumstances they are just too painful for me.
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<BR>Rosina</FONT></HTML>