[Salvation]

For your enjoyment.

Also for your comments!

[Salvation]

Ping!

[Larry Lucido]

God bless Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher.

Honorable mention to Cap Weinberger, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and allies such as Helmut Kohl and, yes, even Francois Mitterand.

[Larry Lucido]

And we can't forget this man.

[Nihil Obstat]

great article - thanks for posting

[pissant]

Excellent.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

Many know that Ronald Reagan and his administration defeated Soviet communism, and rendered it to the "ash heap of history." Less know the impact of Pope John Paul on helping that victory occur.

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[trisham]

This hatred of religion was imbedded in Marxism-Leninism. Marx had called religion "the opiate of the masses" and said that "Communism begins where atheism begins." His chief disciple agreed: "There can be nothing more abominable than religion," wrote Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, in a letter to Maxim Gorky in January 1913. Religion, howled Lenin, was "a necrophilia," akin to a virulent form of venereal disease. Once he was in power, Lenin resolved to do something about it, ordering "mass terror" against the religious: "The more representatives of the reactionary clergy we manage to shoot, the better," he decreed

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Atheism hasn't a very good track record.