Re: the stupidest Bible story -- VIRGIN BIRTH STORIES

On 14 Oct 2003 11:02:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AlEvan)
wrote:


Its always interesting to read the nonsense of people here whose
knowledge of history consists of Sunday school aphorisms.

>Furthermore, again:  The first people Hitler imprisoned were christian
>clerics-in fact, Catholics.

Pure baloney. Want details read about it at
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/paul_23_4.html its damning.



>I can tell you this, Dave:  I know Catholics, and Hitler is no
>Catholic.  Just the opposite:  He is anally parochial.

And you are an ill informed compulsive theist.

>The Crusades were not a war of aggression.  Just the opposite, they
>were a defensive war.  They attempted to wrest from the Muslims lands
>which were Christian; and from which the Muslim had driven the
>Christians.

The also killed a lot of Christians. They were mostly a gang of armed
thieves and murders.

>On the other hand, it is true that the Crusades were diverted to
>objectives, such as the Sack of Constantinople, that had nothing to do
>with the persuit of the stated mission.  This is facinating history,
>because it indicates just how weak the Popes themselves actually were:
> They could not lead armies themselves, or assign their Cardinals or
>Bishops to lead, but had to depend on the political leaders of the
>time; and, the way they got them to go was to promise them land.
>
>In the scale of things of that time, the Crusaders were no more
>violent than anyone else...including the Muslims.
 

Yes, that is the way of religious zealotry 
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