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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (77978)	10/21/2003 12:53:58 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Of course religion has been both cruel and kind. But you have the cart before the horse. Nietzsche was right in his recognition that democracy and humanism represented extrapolations from Christianity, albeit secularized. It was a religion that raised fishermen to Apostles and considered slaves capable of fellowship in the church, and that extolled Christ's mother as the very image of human virtue, and the Queen of Heaven, that led to a high regard for the common man, the eventual abolition of slavery, and the ultimate rise in the status of women.......