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Tao Stoic 34

"Master, I heard a radio program about missionaries among Indian tribes. Do you know that these are lifelong ruled by fears of sperrits of the forests?"

"Indeed, when they get Christianity instead, it means no more than an exchange of one fear for another. These missionaries do business on other people's fears and hopes, sheer blackmail. What unscrupulous, merciless, stupid arrogance is it to take the right in your own hands of inducing lifelong misery in others! Do, read Maugham's 'Rain' for instance. Like Hitler, Muhammad, Saul and many, many others, they just cannot leave people alone, or, at request, give them True Words as advice."

"Does this not go for parents too?"

"Indeed, every child has the fundamental right not to be burdened with life-long superstition, at the very beginning of its life. It is against Man's Dignity, to violate beginning life, for which Nature, the Way, has made them responsible."


Ven 2005-01-24