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To: jennyp
Really.

So, putting club to skull is morally equivalent to not finding cures for diseases, eh?

Are you sure you want to defend that thesis?

By the way, I believe Newton was a Christian. Pascal as well. Anyway, any more hamfisted jabs?

If you're going to bring up the history of the Catholic Church etc., fine, I'll own up to Torquemada and the Inquisition, Galileo's suppression, and so forth. As a Catholic Christian I own that.

But guess what--as an atheist you OWN the Great Leap Forward (80 million dead), the neo-pagan Holocaust, the Cultural Revolution (20 million dead), Pol Pot's atrocities, the Stalinist purges, and on and on and on. Same ideas, same results.

By the way if you're going to come at me with Objectivism, which it sounds like you're going to ("moral collectivism"), good luck.

23 posted on 08/11/2002 4:09:21 PM PDT by HumanaeVitae
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To: HumanaeVitae
If you're going to bring up the history of the Catholic Church etc., fine, I'll own up to Torquemada and the Inquisition, Galileo's suppression, and so forth. As a Catholic Christian I own that.

You forgot the Thirty Years' War, which killed about a third of the population of central Europe (and, yes, you do have to scale all figures for population and tech level...).

93 posted on 08/12/2002 11:21:49 AM PDT by steve-b
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