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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: longshadow
Did you get lost going back to the frogrepublic...maybe your eggs are gone--lost!
177 posted on 09/27/2001 1:46:05 PM PDT by f.Christian
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To: longshadow
Thats fine, but historical progression is also as important. I just have a hard time coming up with stats that rank pound for pound Christianity vs. Islam that show moral equivalency in terms of murderous religious fanantics. Sure we could go back to the crusades, but I am talking more modern history. The Mid-east is a violent place, with only one real democracy being Isreal, and most of the conflicts are religious based. We could go out of our way here and even say that very little has changed in 1000 years.

In your defense, the conflicts in the Balkans has a religous undercurrent as well.

193 posted on 09/27/2001 2:16:44 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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