To: Pokey78
For a big-ideas guy, Watson is missing the bigger question: something has to be responsible for most of the wars and bigotry, and if it wasnt religion, it would surely be something else. In fact, in the 20th century, it was. Europes post-Christian pathogens of communism and Nazism unleashed horrors on a scale inconceivable even to the most ambitious Pope.
Gotta love lines like this.
10 posted on
12/15/2005 9:34:10 AM PST by
Mr. Blonde
(You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
To: Mr. Blonde
The Nineteenth Century could be the Age Of Man because it was assumed that without religion handcuffing people Man would finally achieve true greatness. After the secular horrors of the past century, we know better. Its the Beautiful People that are sadly out of touch with the currents of the day.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
44 posted on
12/15/2005 10:09:47 AM PST by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Mr. Blonde
Wanna have fun... Imagine Mark Steyn being read by Peter O'Toole as Henry II.
135 posted on
12/15/2005 12:47:40 PM PST by
gridlock
(eliminate perverse incentives)
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