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Originally posted by Cowperson@Dec 31 2004, 01:18 PM
On another front, I found this interesting, buried deep in a National Post story, the religious reward/punishment mechanism coming into play to reinforce its hold on people in the most dire of circumstances.
In Banda Aceh, on Sumatra island's devastated northwestern coast, Muslims held traditional Friday prayers at a 390-year-old mosque amid the stench of death from thousands of bodies.
"Allah still loves us, but he is testing us," cleric Ali told thousands of worshippers at the Jamii Lungbato mosque. "This is also a warning. We have become arrogant and strayed too far from his teachings."
http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?...ce-8cffba2cf4f0
Cowperson
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Yikes........
It's not Allah, it's mother nature.
Interesting angle, nevertheless.