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Organised religion always puzzles me - all of the religeous texts that I have read (several different version of the bible, some additional Jewish commentaries about the differences between the bible and the Torah, the Qur'an (in English translation), the Budhist texts that I can never spell the name of) make the point that it is important to live by the book and practice a life of peace and thought that includes self awareness.
That people then take those messages and somehow derive extreme behavious from then in the name of God is astonishing - there is no way to get from "Love thy enemy", "turn the other cheek" to "kill the faithless".
Extremism is ugly in all of its forms (political, religeous, social).
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
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In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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