>Jim,
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>Thanks ever so much. Your insight has been very helpful. I also see parallels between the French/English & NI/UK problems. It seems to revert to religious bickering, doesn't it..
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>Pity. That a message of love has been transformed onto one of hate..
A person known as 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1844-1921) said something to the effect that "Any religion should unite people. If it doesn't, it is better to abandon that religion. In fact, this would be a very religious act." Pity I don't remember his exact words.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)