Re: The light turns green

bIXX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ix.sas.com (Bill) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Lawrence E. McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  writes: 
>>On 2 Dec 2003 14:14:10 GMT, bIXX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ix.sas.com (Bill) wrote:
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>>>Your *guess* is pretty far off the mark, there Ray.
>>>The atheists of Czarist Russia murdered an estimated
>>>20-30 million people in the last century.  
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>>Ummm.  The 'atheists of Czarist Russia'?  I suggest you study a bit
>>more history. 
> 
> Perhaps I am wrong, but didn't the Stalinists (or Lenenists) dispose of
> the Czar and his whole family and install a communist. aka atheist,
> State in their place?  (And it failed after ~70 years of trying...)

You said "the atheists of Czarist Russia". The Czarists were christian. 
It was the communists who replaced them that were atheists and murdered 
so many people. If you had used the word "communist" rather than 
"czarist" you would have been correct.

While on the subject of Stalin's murders, I had a thought. I believe it 
was PJM, who claimed that since Saddam Hussein shared bin Laden's hatred 
of America, that Saddam Hussein shared responsibility for 9/11. By that 
logic, since the US allied with Russia during WWII, the US shares 
responsibility for Stalin's atrocities.

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Ken Denny
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