On 10/11/2013 6:14 AM, Shay wrote:
> On religion, Thomas Jefferson said, "It does me no injury for my
> neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my
> pocket nor breaks my leg.”

I have always thought that, while in principle the idea sounded good, it 
implied the naive assumption that you neighbors neighbor didn't as well, 
or their neighbor, or the next one, etc. One you get "outside" of your 
own group, it not uncommon to find, in extreme cases, that someone, in 
actual fact, wants to do both, and do so in the name of their god.

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