You left out three.
Sorry
Posted on 01/28/2008 9:20:07 AM PST by forkinsocket
Bovine Excrement.
One, two, five.
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You left out three.
Next is seven.
It is a nice sounding theory that when you separate the Christian Church from the state, you get stability, but it does not pass the common sense test.
For instance, I know it is the first words out of any atheist mouth when you try to talk with them about Jesus, “Explain the Inquisition," and “Look how evil the church was!" and "Look what they did in the name of Jesus!"
It is true that about 500 years ago, Christian fanatics killed about 10,000 people over a 100 year time period (about 100/year) in the name of the Roman Catholic church. It is a shame on the record of an organization that claims to be promoting the ministry of Christ. Now compare this record to the example of the countries that have officially done away with religion. To the countries that have outright banned religion and imprisoned those who try to practice it (the ultimate test of the theory of separation of church and state).
Yes, I am talking about Communist countries. In the Communist Manifesto, Engel and Marx declared, "Communism abolishes all religion." In my father's lifetime, the numbers of people that officially atheist countries have murdered in the name of no-religion is staggering; the USSR slaughtered 20 million, China slaughtered 10 million, Communist Cambodia slaughtered 2 million, Communist North Korea has/continues to murder untold numbers, Communist Cuba has/continues to murder untold numbers, the list goes on.
The grand total is over 50 million dead in the last 80-year time span (over 600,000/year). Even comparing the worst time of "Christian Persecution" to an average time of a just one country that has officially and forcefully separated church and state, the conclusion is obvious: Christianity has a huge calming influence on government.
Atheists love to hark back to the dark days of Christian sectarian violence, but it is Christian Europe with its underpinnings of Judaic law that brought forth western civilization. The bad is infinitesimal compared to the good in western civilization. We had better resolve to defend it.
2banana
ping for future.
God is an APPLIED mathematician.
Yeah.
The greatest murderers in history... Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot... all were highly religious. /sarc. LOL!
They were atheists. Like 86% of mathematicians. Like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg. Like Margaret Sanger.
Just anti-religious bigotry.
I’m sure in the heart of the person that spake thus, he’s only referring to Christianity.
One tidbit for everyone - ever wonder why the Muslims didn’t advance ANY science of their own except for what they stole from conquered civilizations?
In Christianity, we believe that God is good and consistent. For example, we assume that He wouldn’t make the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter different in different cases.
Any such “chaining” of “Allah” would be viewed as a beheadable offense in Islam.
You left out three.
Sorry
That it is alot of fish?
It's the birthday of anyone born on May 3, year 1?
Nice Reply.
Do you have a source for your statistics?
I went the other way 'cause my BD is on May 3!...felt a kind of kindred relationship, ya see...
They are all over the net. This is a good source (and yes, I was very conservative with the numbers)
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm
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