"Igtheist" <igtheist_N_O_S_P_A_M@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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MarkA <manthony@stopspam.net> wrote in message
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This past weekend, our hospital had an unusual case: a 9 year old Amish
boy with a head injury. A car came around a bend, startled the horse,
the
horse reared up, the cart tipped over, the kid fell out and bumped his
head. The kid wound up with an epidural hematoma, required a craniotomy
to evacuate the clot. He will probably make a full recovery, but it's
going to be a while before he is back in the fields.

How the Amish can continue to survive in an increasingly technologic
world
is a testament to their stubbornness. I almost admire their refusal to
allow logic to intrude on their fantasy world.

Amish deaths in car accidents are probably way below the national
average.

I'm just glad that they
don't have guns, or they would be the Xtian equivalent of the Taliban.

Christian Taliban?
Are you that dense that you actually believe in such nonsense?
When Christian individuals and institutions have shed innocent people?s
blood, they have acted inconsistent with the principles of Christianity,
which is indeed supposed to be a religion of love. The problem in such
cases has not been the abandonment of reason for faith, but quite the
reverse. When nations or other institutions have resorted to violence in
the name of Christ, they have done so because they abandoned faith in what
God says in the Bible (e.g., turn the other cheek, love your enemies and
do good to them, as much as possible be at peace with all people) and
followed their flawed reasoning (I have to do this to them before they do
it to me, etc.).

That having been said, the history of Christianity is in many ways a much
more positive history of peacemaking and love than the question assumes. A
very helpful book on this subject that looks at both the good and the bad
is Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett?s Christianity on Trial: Arguments
against Anti-Religious Bigotry (Encounter Books, 2001).