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To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (240)9/14/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: MikeH  Respond to of 69300
 
But the book of Gensis has been kept fairly pure in the Torah for millenia. Although, to be honest, I don't know when the Torah was written down, but I figured it was before Christ.

And, I thought that the serious persecution of Christians came to an end with Constintine. Charlmagne just brought Christiantiy to the frogs, err Gauls.



To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (240)9/14/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
>After all, the secular view is
also commonly held by communistic states.<

A word of caution here. There is no one "secular view" just as there is no one "religious view". The contrived secularism of the Communists was in effect a religion, since it taught dogma and twisted facts to siut ideology (e.g. Lysenko). It would be unfair to lump all secular-minded folk into the same pit as the ideologues.
Btm line - that is not a sound argument for showing that religious thought is "better" than secular thought.



To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (240)9/14/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: Akula  Respond to of 69300
 
Actually, Constantine, a Roman emperor, became a Christian several centuries before Charlemagne was born. And in many places in Europe where Christianity is now practiced, most often Christians were not actively persecuted.