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To: robertpaulsen
where's the moron who would seriously contend that religion, morality, or knowledge were unnecessary for good government?

Haven't read much history, eh? Prohibitions of religion, enforced..um..creative morality are not unusual, and suppression of knowledge is routinely practiced by most governments that ever existed. Of course, these governments always considered themselves "good". "One true religion" (with the head cleric firmly under the tyrant's thumb) was often enforced to the violent exclusion of other religions. "Right of the first night", public funding of depravity, and general rolling of heads for fun are often central to many despots' rule. "The Killing Fields" of Cambodia, along with many other pogroms against education, were the removal of the intellectuals (you wear glasses? you're a threat, off with your head) from a subjugated people.

Lame start, RP. Surely you can do better than that - or maybe you're on the ropes.

50 posted on 02/04/2008 2:00:59 PM PST by ctdonath2 (GWB wept for those who suffer. HRC wept for herself.)
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To: ctdonath2
"Prohibitions of religion, enforced..um..creative morality are not unusual, and suppression of knowledge is routinely practiced by most governments that ever existed."

I would not call that "good" government. I'd be hard pressed to even call that a "government".

66 posted on 02/04/2008 2:33:07 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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