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To: longshadow
Add to your response the fact that the victims of the Spanish Inquisition and witches of Salem might like to take issue with that remark.

Huh? Please come up with an instance within 300 years of the present time to recieve credit. Heck, at least they had trials, albeit total shams. I think the church has come along way.

152 posted on 09/27/2001 1:20:30 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator
Please come up with an instance within 300 years of the present time to recieve credit.

I recall reading about witches being killed in Mexico. Not in the last 20 years or so, but not long before that.

167 posted on 09/27/2001 1:33:03 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: KC_Conspirator
I think the church has come along way.

The church is not the issue. It is the religious fanatics, and their willingness to murder people, that is at issue.

The previous respondent already gave a contemporary example. I added an historical perspective, as the original comment used the word "habit." Being that "habits" are behavior repeated over time, the historical component is perfectly valid in adjudging whether religious fanatics have habitually tended toward murdering their fellow man, and continue to do so today.

The evidence indicates they do, and still are.

170 posted on 09/27/2001 1:37:37 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: KC_Conspirator
Witch Killings.
173 posted on 09/27/2001 1:43:45 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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