Ray Audette wrote:

> Those religions that produce ill health also produce medical
> practices to help deal with those problems (see:Aruvidic Medicine,
> Chinese Medicine, Kellogg's "San" at Battle Creek, Loma Linda etc.).

So does that mean that, for example, it would be folly to practice
Chinese Medicine if one doesn't follow a Chinese diet?

> Our religions often require that we sacrafice our health or even our
> lives for the sake ot the other species involved.  By understanding
> this we can improve the health of millions and perhaps cause people
> to think before they behave as they have in the Balkans, Ruwanda,
> Nothern Ireland or Israel

I fail to see the connection, at least where Israel is concerned.
Both Jews and Muslims have always followed meat-based diets, when and
where meat is available.  If there's one aspect of life that has seen
the most Jewish-Moslem understanding and cooperation, it's in the area
of food.  Kosher meat has always been acceptable to Moslems, and -
like Jews - they also avoid pork.  Jewish and Islamic religious
representatives have been working together on joint supervision of
commercial food products that are acceptable to both constituencies.

(And... forgive me for getting wildly off-topic, but since you've
brought it up I will just say that the roots of the present
Israeli-Arab conflict are political, not religious.  I don't think any
further discussion of it belongs on this list, though.)

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Deanna