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To: SirVinny who wrote (507017)	12/10/2003 10:58:15 AM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 769670

You wrote:<font color=blue>"Dear Robert, just for the sake of clarity, can you please explain what you mean by having a country just for Jews where they can be free from persecution?"<font color=black> Read the following about religious persecution and you might understand a little better: EUROPEAN PERSECUTION "The religious persecution that drove settlers from Europe to the British North American colonies sprang from the conviction, held by Protestants and Catholics alike, that uniformity of religion must exist in any given society. This conviction rested on the belief that there was one true religion and that it was the duty of the civil authorities to impose it, forcibly if necessary, in the interest of saving the souls of all citizens. Nonconformists could expect no mercy and might be executed as heretics. The dominance of the concept, denounced by Roger Williams as "inforced uniformity of religion," meant majority religious groups who controlled political power punished dissenters in their midst. In some areas Catholics persecuted Protestants, in others Protestants persecuted Catholics, and in still others Catholics and Protestants persecuted wayward coreligionists. Although England renounced religious persecution in 1689, it persisted on the European continent. Religious persecution, as observers in every century have commented, is often bloody and implacable and is remembered and resented for generations." loc.gov You wrote:<font color=blue>"Are you saying they are special and are owed an exclusive country while the rest of the world should become a Melting Pot?"<font color=black> Jewish persecution isn't unique to just Jewish families. Many races, cultures and religions have been persecuted for centuries, and each time, the victims attempted to escape to safety, like the Pilgrims who fled to America to escape the religious persecution for Europe. You would understand better if you studied the history of religious persecution, instead of asking questions which just show that you are uneducated and ignorant about history.