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Dominion: Comments and Discussion
Comments by Richard Schwartz - 3 Mar 2010

Ruth,

Do you also feel that democracy has two faces, because democratic US has backed several dictators when it was in our interest.

If someone from a country claiming his/her country represented compassion, justice, democracy, harmony and all good things argued that you should come to his/her country because the US massacred Indians, enslaved and brutally treated Blacks, prevented women from voting for many years, backed dictators, unjustly attacked Vietnam and Iraq, and backed several dictators, would you move to that country, or would you feel as an American you should stay here and try to use democracy and other positives in the US to try to make our country better

If the latter, what makes you think that people immersed in other religions are going to suddenly become Jains, a religion they know almost nothing about? Perhaps it might be better to argue that people should try to apply the best aspects of their religions, including compassion.

All the best,

Richard