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Ed Chait
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"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Ed Chait wrote:
>> "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Bill Sornson writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> You mean, like, the Inquisition? The Crusades? Burning
>>>>>> "heretics?" Tormenting people falsely accused of witchcraft?
>>>>>> Murdering people in the name of God? Christianity has a 2000 year
>>>>>> history of twisting the teachings of Jesus for political reasons
>>>>>> and out of sheer perverse self-righteousness.
>>>>> You seem to have more problems with horrible acts carried out
>>>>> hundreds if not thousands of years ago than with current,
>>>>> present-day atrocities like beheadings, homicide bombings, ethnic
>>>>> cleansing, rape rooms, torture chambers, etc. If the actors are (or
>>>>> see themselves as) /oppressed/, that makes it OK?
>>>> Read "End of Faith" by Harris if you need the more recent crimes
>>>> listed that are performed in the name of God.
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/2o9oju
>>>>
>>>> I notice you claim not to be a member of a religion, but shy away from
>>>> declaring you are an atheist. Where do you stand.
>>>>
>>>> Jobst Brandt
>>> Geesh,
>>> More harm and war crimes and outright torture and injustice can be
>>> attributed to religion than anything else in all of history. The crimes
>>> committed by the catholic church make ****** and Stalin look like fairly
>>> decent people. As long as we have religious wars and killing then
>>> religion is more of a force for evil than for good.
>>> Hence, I will state, before anyone can accuse me of something, that I am
>>> 100% Atheist. No caring and loving 'God' would tolerate all this **** in
>>> his/her name.
>>> Bill Baka
>>
>>
>> Actually, if you do a little research, you will discover that *far* more
>> people have been killed throughout history by atheist despots than by the
>> RC church. The numbers aren't even close.
>>
>> ed
> I know that there were the Romans, Ghengis Khan, Spanish Conquistadors,
> Napoleon, Stalin, ******, Bush, Bush....
> Then there were the religious murders committed in the name of the church
> for over 1,000 years.
> If I did the research, religion would lose. Historically it has been the
> Christians murdering the non-Christians but lately the Muslims are taking
> up the slack.
> Bill Baka
Again, atheist despots and atheist regimes have murdered and killed far more
people than any other group throughout history.
Do the research and you will be quite surprised.
ed
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> Ed Chait wrote:
>> "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Bill Sornson writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> You mean, like, the Inquisition? The Crusades? Burning
>>>>>> "heretics?" Tormenting people falsely accused of witchcraft?
>>>>>> Murdering people in the name of God? Christianity has a 2000 year
>>>>>> history of twisting the teachings of Jesus for political reasons
>>>>>> and out of sheer perverse self-righteousness.
>>>>> You seem to have more problems with horrible acts carried out
>>>>> hundreds if not thousands of years ago than with current,
>>>>> present-day atrocities like beheadings, homicide bombings, ethnic
>>>>> cleansing, rape rooms, torture chambers, etc. If the actors are (or
>>>>> see themselves as) /oppressed/, that makes it OK?
>>>> Read "End of Faith" by Harris if you need the more recent crimes
>>>> listed that are performed in the name of God.
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/2o9oju
>>>>
>>>> I notice you claim not to be a member of a religion, but shy away from
>>>> declaring you are an atheist. Where do you stand.
>>>>
>>>> Jobst Brandt
>>> Geesh,
>>> More harm and war crimes and outright torture and injustice can be
>>> attributed to religion than anything else in all of history. The crimes
>>> committed by the catholic church make ****** and Stalin look like fairly
>>> decent people. As long as we have religious wars and killing then
>>> religion is more of a force for evil than for good.
>>> Hence, I will state, before anyone can accuse me of something, that I am
>>> 100% Atheist. No caring and loving 'God' would tolerate all this **** in
>>> his/her name.
>>> Bill Baka
>>
>>
>> Actually, if you do a little research, you will discover that *far* more
>> people have been killed throughout history by atheist despots than by the
>> RC church. The numbers aren't even close.
>>
>> ed
> I know that there were the Romans, Ghengis Khan, Spanish Conquistadors,
> Napoleon, Stalin, ******, Bush, Bush....
> Then there were the religious murders committed in the name of the church
> for over 1,000 years.
> If I did the research, religion would lose. Historically it has been the
> Christians murdering the non-Christians but lately the Muslims are taking
> up the slack.
> Bill Baka
Again, atheist despots and atheist regimes have murdered and killed far more
people than any other group throughout history.
Do the research and you will be quite surprised.
ed