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

To: Neocon who wrote (78095)	10/22/2003 12:39:26 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"and the followers of Allah have had a problem with their attitudes towards women. They do not need to become Catholic to be socialized out of it, but it is probable that reverence for Mary had a lot to do with the rise in the stature of women in the Western World." No, it isn't. Women gained freedom when the back of the Church was broken and secular values were substituted. The Church's policy on women requires no comment. The scriptures are myriad. We only overcame them in the last century. And other religions still treat women as slaves in accordance with Holy Scripture. "Most of what you attribute to religion should be attributed to barbarism," Hello? Is anybody home? I have tried very carefully to admit to the barbarism of superstition. I have shown how science, medicine, and philosophy were suffocated by the sword and sceptre of the Church--and how their champions were drawn and quartered in front of the King and the Priest. Should we pretend that such common knowledge is debatable?