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[Cyrus]

barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

>Isn't there a passage in Gravity's Rainbow to this effect?
>

Perhaps:
"The basic problem", he proposes, "has always been getting other people 
to die for you. What's worth enough for a man to give up his life? 
That's where religion had the edge, for centuries. Religion was always 
about death. It was used not as an opiate so much as a technique -- it 
got people to die for one particular set of beliefs about death. 
Perverse, natürlich, but who are you to judge? It was a good pitch while 
it worked. [...]" GR p. 701

I'm afraid it still works... Sure, one could blame monotheism. But what 
good would that be?

Cyrus