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I would disagree with Maher by saying that, with the exception of late 20th century abortion clinic bombings, Christians today don't do what some Muslims are doing, as some engaging in acts like this ended with the Spanish Inquisition.

And no acts like this have done or have been carried out by Jewish people since they entered into the Promised Land.

The point is, violence from Christians and Jews/Christianity o and Judaism (or in their name of these faiths) is all in the past.

1 posted on 01/09/2015 9:29:39 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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The Inquisition was not the last of serious persecution by Christians. Have you forgotten Oliver Cromwell? I can tell you that the Irish Catholics have not.

The French Revolution was a time of terror for more than just the nobility. Catholic clergy were hunted down and slaughtered.

And in the Second German Reich under Bismarck there was a period of time when the “May Laws” were enacted against the Catholics in the Rheinland, Westphalia, Baden and Bavaria. Lots of people who emigrated from Germany during the 1870-1880’s did so because of religious oppression. The laws were so egregious that they decided to nullify them.

The Spanish Civil War has been touted as somehow Generalisimo Franco, for no reason, went after the leftists and imprisoned them. But the rest of the story is that Spanish Communists were invading monasteries and killing priests and nuns. Our news media conveniently forgets that part of the story.

My only point is to remind people that the Inquisition is not the only time that persecution for religious ideology took place.


42 posted on 01/09/2015 10:40:05 AM PST by Gumdrop
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So Mr Maher, I’m a Christian. Are you ready to take your beliefs to the next level, by imprisoning me or executing me?


43 posted on 01/09/2015 10:43:28 AM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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Not all religions are dangerous; only the dangerous ones are dangerous. Most deadly is the religion of fundamentalist secularism.


44 posted on 01/09/2015 10:55:35 AM PST by lurk
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Bill is an idiot. Pray for his soul, the fool.


47 posted on 01/09/2015 11:20:44 AM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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Bill Maher On Charlie Hebdo: All Religions Are 'Stupid and Dangerous'

He Bill Maher! If you think religions are dangerous, you ought to see what secular societies are like. Atheist communists killed 60 million in Russia, and 80 million in China.

The body pile of atheism is far larger than the body pile of religions. (Excluding Islam, of course. It's murdered more people than any other organization.)

49 posted on 01/09/2015 11:50:11 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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First of all there are no great religions. They're all stupid and dangerous.

That is in fallacious hasty over-generalization based on his secular humanistic worldview and his emotionalistic hatred of religion.There is no moral equivalency between a religion that is pro life and pro natural rights like Christianity and one that is anti life and anti natural rights like mohammedanism.

65 posted on 01/09/2015 1:14:28 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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I tend to agree.

I view religions in the same way I do political parties. I belong to none.

My personal beliefs more align with Christianity and conservatism. I used to say my personal beliefs were in line with “Republicans”, but I’m not sure that’s true anymore.


66 posted on 01/09/2015 1:37:32 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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Show me a society that was not founded on religion. So, where there is no options, there is no problem.


67 posted on 01/09/2015 2:02:53 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have freedom or government schools. Choose one.)
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Atheists are right up with the Muslims in mass murder. See communism and the French Revolution.


68 posted on 01/09/2015 2:41:35 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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Too many of his LIBERAL friends jumped his ass about his earlier comments and now he's back peddling to save face.

Typical LIBERAL a$$hole behavior.

97 posted on 01/13/2015 2:48:38 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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