[Dr. Eckleburg]

the gentlemen whose religious enthusiasms helped to foment the religious wars of the 15th-17th centuries are such a fine example for how we should deal with those with whose religious practices we disagree.

What have you read from these gentlemen, many of whom were burned at the stake or murdered in their sleep simply for reading the Bible?

[r9etb]

And what have you read in history, about the tens and hundreds of thousands killed in religious wars about who were the "true" Christians, and who were the heretics?

Neither the Catholic nor the Protestant churches were innocent of bloodshed. The point is that the Catholics on this thread are not speaking like the gentlemen of yore. But you and your pals are.

That realization should sober you up. Sad, bored experience assures me that it won't, but it should.