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To: neverdem
Martin Luther relied upon the pikes of Protestant kings to spread his new faith.

Luther would never, ever have claimed to have founded a "new" faith. His argument was with the Roman Church, the hierarchy, not the Faith.

And George Orwell never said that quote in life, only on the internet. (He expressed a similar sentiment in a book review, so it is a fair paraphrase of what Orwell believed.)

12 posted on 05/11/2008 8:20:57 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The fact that men of the Left tend to despise the rough use of force, or even the intellectual reasoning behind the use of the force and philosophies that spring from the aftermath of such usage is unsurprising.

What is surprising is the ignorance on their part of the men in now Liberal Bastions that who supported Arms and Armaments, and the struggle that exists between the urge to Civilization and the urge to Perfection, the early scholars understood that War, and Violence are a part of life of a Civilization, and something that could never be perfected out of existence, men of the Left believe that to be fallacy, that mankind can be perfected.

The irony of the men of the left’s views requiring Govt to use force to enforce such schemes is a blind spot, a fatal myopic flaw that leaves their rantings devoid of moral authority or intellectual honesty.

Rudyard Kipling would smirk at men such as those.


17 posted on 05/11/2008 8:33:42 AM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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