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• Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:45 AM

  @jwnelson

  If you want to pontificate, you do have the right to do so, but it would be nice if you actually knew something before you spew.

  1- WWI? WTF? Every country involved in the European part of the war was at least nominally Christian. The least Christian country involved was France. The most Christian countries were Germany, Austria and Russia. You really need to do some reading here.

  2- The Naz were Christian, all of them. Germany was one of the most Christian countries in the world at the time of the holocaust. Every Jew, Roma, Slav, homosexual and others murdered in the camps were killed by Chritians, every single one. A few senior Nazis did dabble in the occult, but, bozo ( a necessary perjorative in this case), nothing about the occult is secular or atheist.

  3- Stalin was a mass murderer, yes, big time, but not one person was killed in the name of atheism or secularism. All were killed in the name of Leninism. And don't even start with Marx. Marx was an academic not a revolutionary, and he never called for revolution. He didn't believe that revolution coulkd be made, he believed that it would occur organically in highly developed industrial states. That's why Lenin was in Switzerland in 1917. The concept of created revolution with top down dictatorship was pure Lenin, nothing to do with Mark who believed in the 'withering away of the state'. Please, a little knowledge here rather than pure ignorance.

  4- Mao and Pol Pot were also mass murderers but never in the name of atheism or secularism. All in the name of leninism or communism or Maoism.

  5- The Congo? WTF? The U.S. assassinated Lamumba the supposed atheist and communist. We supported Mbutu, a Christian who murdered two million with our total support. He later saw himself as god, but we still supported him.

  6- The Romans were not Christians but they were very religious. Can't you read?

  Your post was consummate ignorance. Learn something before you stick your feet in your mouth up to your thighs.

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