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To: TimF who wrote (63711)	1/30/2008 6:22:46 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

"Christians have never enforced their way at sword point or gunpoint?" Generally not, or almost never, acting that way now, doesn't mean that none of them ever did, but the Spanish Inquisition is a long time ago. Emperor Constantine? He didn't get to be Romen Emperor with his persuasive powers. (Yes. He had plenty of pagan predecessors that got there the same way.) Pogroms? Wars of the Reformation? Crusades? IRA? The Wars of the Papal States with the Pope acting as CIC? There were times when there were 2, 3, or 4 Popes. These rarely were settled peacefully. Murders of doctors who do abortions? This should help straighten matters out. Be prepared to be confused. :-) friesian.com And yes you can find isolated, generally condemned examples, but the writer of the article was not saying "every Christian is completely perfect and would never do anything violent or evil..." And nevertheless the history of the Christian religion is as bloody as any other. "The European hate speech laws are idiotic." No argument here. Canada seems to have taken the European otlook on this. I worry about that viewpoint leaking south. We already have hate crimes. (Interestingly, they also said “no” to a story entitled The Three Little Cowboy Builders because construction workers might take offense. No construction workers had complained about this book either.) The author's kidding, right? This is so dumb it's hard to believe. I don't know, this article is my only source for that story. Another source? undisciplinedmind.blogspot.com