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To: Real Man who wrote (3743)	5/20/1998 9:16:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Among rational people, nothing will destroy the fear of nuclear weapons. But there are religious sects that believe in an after-life, a heaven of various kinds, for whom nuclear warfare is not the worst thing. One of the British Archbishops of Canterbury (I forget who) said placidly that he could think of much worse things than the extermination of all living human beings by a nuclear war. Bertrand Russell expressed some guarded hope that the fear of The Bomb might assure peace. Of course right this minute in various pockets around the world people are being killed by the thousands. I recently looked at the first volume of a new History of the Twentieth Century. Never before have so many people killed so many other people in such ingenious and often horrible ways. The century far outdoes every other--though of course there have been dreadful episodes. In the twelfth century, I think it was, the Albigenisan Crusade, Christians against Christians, obliterated the most cultivated society in Europe up to that point in massacres of incredible ferocity (in southern France.)