On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this... HS> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:34:38PM -0500, stuart wrote: >> Encouraging the imperial persecution of a religious minority?
HS> Well, it looks at this point that it would have been a reasonable trade-off, HS> given the millions who have been tortured and murdered in Europe and the HS> Americas since the Council of Nicea in 425 by the offspring of those surviving HS> christers. And considering all those from Africa murdered and enslaved here by HS> christers, And especially now, considering the millions enslaved as we speak HS> in the US by christers, and what we can clearly see about to happen with HS> the new christer crusades. All of this has nothing to do with early Christians. You could say the Romans should have wiped out the early Germanic tribes and so averted the Holocaust, but would you? By this precedent, yes. HS> Sometimes the few must be sacrificed for the common good, eh? 8-) You might make an excellent totalitarian ruler. HS> Obviously the christers, past and present, see it that way. Be careful who you lump together. Most Christians do not wish for the things you describe here. You are confusing fundamentalists with the rest. They may be loud, they may have power, they are most certainly not all. -- stuart Anyone who tells you they want a utopia wants to put chains on the souls of your children. They want to deny history and strangle any unforeseen possibility. They should be resisted to the last breath. -Bruce Sterling-
