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To: Junior

snip...You mean like the pagan Greeks and their democracy, or the pagan Romans and their constitutional republic?



You forgot to mention some pertinent facts, Junior. Like how females were considered to be sub-human creatures; abortion, infanticide, and child abandonment were commonly practiced; and slave population numbers most usually outnumbered the citizens. Not so hot after all, eh?


46 posted on 01/23/2005 11:26:54 AM PST by Lindykim
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To: Lindykim

Ahem, in both Greece and Rome women could own property; abortion and infanticide are practiced nowadays in supposedly Christian nations; and Christians once used the Bible to justify enslaving their fellow men.


104 posted on 01/23/2005 3:02:17 PM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Lindykim
You forgot to mention some pertinent facts, Junior. Like how females were considered to be sub-human creatures; abortion, infanticide, and child abandonment were commonly practiced; and slave population numbers most usually outnumbered the citizens. Not so hot after all, eh?

Up until recently, every Christian country in the world treated women as second class citizens. Abortion, infanticide and child abandonment occurred in every Christian society in history. As for percentage of the population consisting of slaves, that number was never more than about 20% in Rome, which is a much smaller percentage than in the old Christian, god-fearing South.

111 posted on 01/23/2005 7:15:58 PM PST by Modernman (What is moral is what you feel good after. - Ernest Hemingway)
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