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To: Big Otto
Not even radical Christians certainly posed a threat to the druids.
252 posted on 10/24/2002 11:59:04 AM PDT by stuartcr
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To: stuartcr
Streeeeeeeeeeeeetch
253 posted on 10/24/2002 12:00:10 PM PDT by Big Otto
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To: stuartcr
Not even radical Christians certainly posed a threat to the druids.

I'm not sure what your sentence means, or even if it is a sentence. But if, on the off chance, you mean the Christians wiped out the druids, then why do I decorate a Christmas tree every year, and why is a tree hoisted to the top of nearly every tall building under construction?

Religions and cultures get wiped out for a number of reasons. There's a hot debate going on about the pre-history of South and Central America.

One thing about American culture -- we do not wipe out other cultures. I will admit we have taken land and forced natives into reservations. These may are may not constitute theft -- oddly enough, American culture allows these claims into court. And in the case of the Seminoles in Florida, the case was settled amicably, reparations were paid.

But Americans have never declared other cultures and other religions to be illegal.

Islam is a very special case because it does not distinguish between religious and political authority. This is totally incompatible with the most fundamental reason for the founding of our country. It is impossible to reconcile with Islam except on terms of victory.

Freepers old enough to remember the cold war will recall 70 years of apologists for communism (they had better health care, etc). We did not kill or deport communists (indeed, they dominate our universities); we did not bomb them, but we did defeat them. We will do the same with Islam.

When we are finished, perhaps a hundred years from now, there will still be muslims, but they will have dropped their Nazi rhetoric, learned to co-exist with other religions, granted equality to women -- in short, they will not be what they are today.

259 posted on 10/24/2002 1:13:41 PM PDT by js1138
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