"Ken Davey" > wrote:

>Julian9EHP wrote:
>
>> Then you'd better not get sick -- you might have to go to a hospital.
>> The great majority of hospitals were started by religious people.
>
>The great majority of hospitals were not started by religious people.
>They sprang out of the desire by 'caring' people to help their fellow man.
>Religion was NOT the reason.
>If what you said was really the case history would be replete with horror
>stories of refusal to admit without evidence of religious affiliation.

Actually what he said *is* in fact the case. A great number of
hospitals (both in the US and abroad) do in fact spring from religious
institutions/foundations.

And in fact, almost none of them were in the habit of turning away
people based on religious affiliation.

>if you want to talk about racial descrimination this is a good place to
>start.

Ignorant bigotry like your is how such discrimination comes to be, and
comes to flourish.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL