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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (113259)	8/29/2003 11:17:43 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

We do still live in the Dark Ages. In the last 100 years, more people have died from government-organized violence, than in any other 100-year period of human history. By a wide margin. In the 14th century, the Black Plague killed 1/3 of the world's population. That was the dark ages. Does anyone want to return to that cheerful time of human history ? The 100 million dead at the hands of the various communist regimes during the 20'th century haven't even made a dent in the world population, the Soviet Empire has crumbled under it's own corrupt weight, and scientific progress has continued unabated, despite lunatics like Trofim Lysenko. Just as the towel headed religious extremists will find their way into the dustbin of history in due course. Eventually, the world won't remember and only certain historians will care much about the 100 million dead of communism, any more than we remember much in detail about wars the Greeks fought. But we do remember the legacy the Greeks have left us - Euclidean geometry, the foundations of axiomatic mathematical thought, and their artistic achievements.... And we will remember and honor by teaching to our school children the accomplishments of the scientists who unlocked the secrets of quantum mechanics and the structural chemical basis of life during the 20'th century, long after Communism, let alone bin Laden, have been all but forgotten. "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) In another message you were just claiming that "faith" was the origin of everything, and now this quote ? Or was your prior reference just another thinly disguised pretext for smearing another load of excrement on the US and Israel ? My view of the world is that of continued human progress despite the idiots of the world, and not the sour misanthropic rap you have never tired of feeding us. And that's nothing new, Rousseau asserted that the inhabitants of Lisbon who died in the earthquake in the mid 1700's had it coming for living in a city, and not out in the sparsely populated countryside.