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MSNBC's O'Donnell: Catholicism Was Once 'The Most Murderous Force on the Face of the Earth'
NewsBusters ^ | February 6, 2015 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 02/06/2015 3:17:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Vendome

THAT was EPIC! Thank you! I copied and pasted to my ever increasing arsenal of rebuttals for idiots on FB. Hope you don’t mind.


61 posted on 02/06/2015 4:24:20 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: Fightin Whitey

Never get between and goat humper and his goat...


62 posted on 02/06/2015 4:25:55 PM PST by Regulator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In this day and age..one never knows!


63 posted on 02/06/2015 4:26:32 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama, who is the most gifted writer and speaker in the history of the American presidency

In heaven, Ronald Reagan is laughing. Probably, very hard.

64 posted on 02/06/2015 4:28:49 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
even Christianity has an Old Testament that explicitly sanctions and approves of terrorism; of terrorism of innocents; of adultery; of rape; of genocide.

The Old Testament sanctions the annihilation of peoples who existed at that time.

The Koran, on the other hand, sanctions terrorism, torture, violence against unbelievers for all time.

That is a huge difference.

65 posted on 02/06/2015 4:30:36 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever it “has been,” it might just be again. So deal with it.


66 posted on 02/06/2015 4:30:48 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey. Larry finally said something that got him in the news again.


67 posted on 02/06/2015 4:32:41 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Slyfox

Atheism and Mass Murder

Joseph Stalin’s atheistic regime killed tens of millions of people.

Concerning atheism and mass murder, Christian apologist Gregory Koukl wrote that “the assertion is that religion has caused most of the killing and bloodshed in the world.

There are people who make accusations and assertions that are empirically false. This is one of them.”[1] Koukl details the number of people killed in various events involving theism and compares them to the much higher tens of millions of people killed under atheistic communist regimes, in which militant atheism served as the official doctrine of the state.[1]

Communist regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through genocide, according to Le Monde, more than 100 million people[2] according to The Black Book of Communism (Panné, J.L., Paczkowski A. et al, 1999).[3] and according to Cleon Skousen[4] in his best-selling book The Naked Communist.[5]

It is estimated that in the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.[6] Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel’s mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.[7]

The rest of the history

http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder


68 posted on 02/06/2015 4:37:54 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
works for me
69 posted on 02/06/2015 4:39:20 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

As are Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Jimmy Madison, JFK and even FDR.


70 posted on 02/06/2015 4:39:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Catholic Church has never even been in the top ten.


71 posted on 02/06/2015 4:44:24 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If we fought wars like the Old Testament using modern warfare, islam wouldn't exist today.
The whole middle east would be covered in glass. And yes, I dream of that day.

And all those things being said from this idiot is about as ignorant as anybody can be.

72 posted on 02/06/2015 4:47:39 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama, who is the most gifted writer and speaker in the history of the American presidency...

Okay, I understand now. It's satire!

/s

73 posted on 02/06/2015 4:48:25 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Vendome
Hindus have about 1.5 billion adherents and they don’t mess with us or anyone else.

Sorry, but you need to do some research. There are militant Hindus who are burning Christian churches and have put Christians to death. The current leader of India is a militant Hindu, causing great concern for churches in India.

Hindu Nationalist Group Seeking to Cleanse Christian Presence From India Is Not Unlike ISIS, Watchdog Group Warns

Christians Targeted in Violent Attacks

Four years after violent attacks, Christians still suffer

74 posted on 02/06/2015 4:49:24 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: Slyfox

Just dismiss it

Don’t try to reason it out

It’s like trying to reason the relativity of antebellum slavery with the self righteous

They don’t want a rational talk

They just see an easy cost free high road hammer


75 posted on 02/06/2015 4:53:09 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Catholicism Was Once 'The Most Murderous Force on the Face of the Earth'

Now it's the DemocRAT Party, right Larry? Murdering people by the millions with special emphasis placed on baby killing.

76 posted on 02/06/2015 4:55:00 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Look! Snowflakes! We're all gonna die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama, who is the most gifted writer and speaker in the history of the American presidency,...

Wow, so "get on our high horse" and "Marine corpse" trumps the Gettysburg Address and anything Washington and Jefferson ever said.

77 posted on 02/06/2015 4:56:36 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Regulator
Damn, that’s whut us Protestants been sayin’ for 500 years now! Then they followed us here...

Vikings were Catholic?

78 posted on 02/06/2015 4:59:40 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: workerbee
Talk about a headline that will cause consternation at FR. Side with Obama, or defend Catholicism. Hmmm. What’s a “bible believing Christian” to do?

Not get in the way. lol

79 posted on 02/06/2015 5:01:39 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: The_Reader_David

‘What’s So Great About Christianity?’ Ask D’Souza

by Gary Bauer

D’Souza begins by busting the myth, pushed by so many atheist writers, that Christianity is on the wane in America. Armed with compelling statistics, D’Souza shreds the secularization narrative by explaining that while liberal church affiliation has plummeted in recent years, there has been significant growth in traditional Christian churches. And though we most often hear of Western Europe’s abandonment of Christianity, overall, there is “a global revival of religion,” and, contrary to popular opinion, Christianity, not Islam, is the fastest-growing religion in world today.

D’Souza then gets to the business of explaining just what is so great about Christianity. In a powerful passage, D’Souza highlights how Christianity has changed the world:
“The sublimity of Christ and his disciples completely reversed the whole classical ideal. Suddenly aristocratic pride came to be seen as something preening and ridiculous. Christ produced the transformation of values in which the last became the first, and values once scorned came to represent the loftiest of human ideals.”

Through Christianity, a new set of values (humility, compassion, charity, etc.) arose that served as the underpinning of the West’s most crucial institutions (monogamous marriage, family, basic human rights, etc.) and of American democracy. It is no accident that history’s great movements of conscience-abolition, desegregation, pro-life-have had firm roots in the faithful, who believe that all are equal in the eyes of God.

After stopping to debunk the lie that religion, and in particular Christianity, has been the source of most of the bloodshed throughout history (for example, only about 2,000 people were executed for heresy in the 350 year Inquisition, while the atheist regimes of Hitler, Mao and Stalin alone killed more than 100 million people), the author moves on to address what is for many the foremost obstacle to belief: The problem of evil.


80 posted on 02/06/2015 5:02:12 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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