But in previous threads, that's all you've made:
Almighty and Most Merciful MOD, we offer unto Thee this soon-to-be burnt offering, which hath been naughty in Thy site.
Posted on 10/11/2004 10:57:23 AM PDT by Chickamauga
I don't think the author intended this statement as an anti-Semitic comment.
I don't think the author intended this statement as an anti-Semitic comment.
Let me be one of the first:
Troll!
Mudlums take note!
Let me be the second: Troll.
First of all he/she needs to learn how to spell -- religious, infallible, and unwittingly. Troll!
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Here's a nice object lesson in what happens when religous lunatics take charge public policy:
The real cause of the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages was the ignorance of conservative Christianity. Church leaders in their over zealous campaign to hunt down and burn witches at the stake decided that cats, like free thinking women were agents of Satan. The Pope ordered both witches and cats to be annihilated.
Destroying all the feline population in feudal towns and villages upset nature's balance because it was the role of cats to contain rodents and other vermin by killing them. Without cats, the rodent population balloned and the rat population was so large they conducted a trillion rat march through Europe and decimated the ignorant god fearing masses.
Rats were the primary carriers of the dreaded flea that was the source of the plague and by ordering the destruction of those sinister cats, the Pope, in all of his infallable wisdom, unwitttingly ordered the death of 50% of Europe's population. Almost all the dead were Christian. Talk about political backlash.
It was science's revenge on those who place their faith in the wholesale ignorance of religion. and a cautionary tale for those who believe god's law is of a higher order than nature. Everybody knows it's not nice to fool Mother Nature because she'll get even.
Lapeste, proprietor of the Surreal Cafe
Heh. Not to mention all the 'witches' not suffered to live. It's a sure sign we have invented God when God hates the same people we hate.
And your reason for posting this was...........
He's a anti-Christian trollboy?
I guess all those cats had on flea collars, huh?
"Rats were the primary carriers of the dreaded flea that was the source of the plague.."
At least he admits that democRATS are plague carriers..
But in previous threads, that's all you've made:
People in the Middle Ages had no concept of disease being carried by organisms that could not be seen with the naked eye. That knowledge did not come until hundreds of years later. So you can't expect them to know how the plague was transmitted.
You wouldn't think it fair if I expected you to be knowledgeable of science that won't even be discovered for another four hundred years, now would you?
One more thing.....
It is irrational to expect that the cat population of medieval Europe would have effectively killed every single rodent coming off of ships in port that carried the fleas which were transmitting plague.
The plague would have happened regardless.
Another wave of plague hit Europe in the 1600's, and there was no widespread killing of cats at that time. So how do you explain that? BTW, the plague in the 1600's is the only thing that gave Sir Isaac Newton the year off of his formal schooling that enabled him to discover calculus.
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