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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: E who wrote (8732)3/15/2001 7:20:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The tiny minorities of Christians and others who sheltered the Jews were sheltering them from the real world consequences of an insane ideology deeply rooted in traditional Christian belief about Jews.

Anti-semitism is not a Christian belief. It is a belief held by many Christians and others but it is not a part of the basic Christian faith. The majority of people who participated in large scale atrocities in Western countries for the last 1000 years where commited by people who are at least nominally Christian because Christianity was the dominent religon in the west during this time. I sumbit that if another faith was dominent (includeing atheism as one of the possible "other faith") that it is still likely that many atrocities would have occured.

On slavery and the development of attitudes against it: the legitimacy of slavery, and the slave trade, in its great Muslim and Christian branches, arose directly out of scriptural sanctions.

Slavery, and the attitude that it was a legitimate practice, existed before either Chrisitanity or Islam, and after those faiths began it continued to exist in areas where they where not popular.

Religion was a powerful motivator in the self-righteous genocide and enslavement of millions of native Americans in the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the New World, for example.

Religon was a motivator, but the main motivator was greed. The native Americans were enslaved so they could plant or dig to create wealth for those that enslaved them, or they where pushed off so the new commers could grab land.

Tim
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