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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (76757)	8/30/2006 6:07:05 PM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Laz...I don't think comparisons to postwar Germany are valid. The Germans weren't fighting for some sort of religious belief. They were essentially a secular society. In the Middle East you're talking about people that believe in their God more than they could ever believe in a Democratic leader. WE can't understand people wanting to die as validation for their own PERSONAL salvation. The only history of that for us seems to come from the Bible. Part of the reverence held for Christianity comes from the stories we get from the Bible extolling the heroics of Christians willing to die for their faith. The Romans found that very difficult to deal with and we are up against sort of the same conundrum. I don't really have any answers and I only post here to see if other people have ideas and possible answers.