The Lolitae are around. They wouldn't miss trying to cadge a Christmas present from me.
I really don't use a recipe when I throw together a gumbo. Part of the technique is simply practice, and using what you like. You can start with a roux, or not, you can use okra, or not, you can use any number of ingredients. I usually use chicken, ham, shrimp, okra, tomatoes, celery, onion, chicken stock, tomato sauce, bay leaf, thyme, basil, salt, pepper, red pepper. And, of course, you serve it on a bed of rice.
Del and I have both gone to great lengths to try to make you understand that the atheism in the Soviet Union was part of a chain reaction to horrible abuses of the peasants under their religion historically,
You and Del must be the only two on Earth who would believe this. Most everyone else understands that people are responsible for their actions. Using your logic, the Nazis could pass off responsibility for their mass murders on (fill in the blank). Apparently you think the Catholic Church belongs in that blank. Most people would put "Hitler" or "The Nazis Themselves" in that blank.
Lenin's own advocacy of political violence and terror are found throughout his writings. He wrote about and advocated using terror against his own citizenry. That, and Marx's atheism derived from Feuerbach, have been constants in the Communist world. The Communist Party of the USSR was acting on the writings of its own leaders, and on its own philosophy when it treated its citizens as expendable cogs in the wheel. Pol Pot repeated the policy on a grand scale, and somehow I don't think even you and Del will be able to figure out how to blame that on the oppression of the Russian serfs by the Orthodox Church. I don't see any need to retract my observation about the quality of the "logic" that I often find this thread. But you all do amuse me. |
