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To: Soliton

“So has God and Christ been used to justify bigotry”

Not at anywhere the level that Darwinism has been used. I’m not a historian, but I’ve read that the number of people killed during the Inquisition per *decade* was something like the number of people killed by Nazis and Communists per *week*.

OK, that’s a vague recollection, but you get the point. We know, for example, that communists murdered something like 100,000,000 of their own countrymen during the past century. That’s why I get very annoyed when Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and other try to pin genocide and mass murder on religion.


49 posted on 04/25/2008 12:47:00 AM PDT by RussP
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To: RussP
Like evolution theory, religion can be used to separate “us” from “them”. Once this is done, it becomes Ubermensch vs Untermensch (Nietzsche) or Believer vs Infidel and evil people use these artificial differences for murder. Darwin didn't kill anyone and didn't advocate killing anyone. Neither did Jesus. Evil does evil and they will always find a justification. The Nazis chose themselves as the master race absent any objective proof, just like every religion thinks they are the true religion. Science is a tool just like guns. Guns don't kill people; people kill people
60 posted on 04/25/2008 1:06:40 AM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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