On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:42:56PM +0100, M Henri Day wrote: > 2010/1/10 RobertHoltzman <[email protected]> > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:02:13PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, it's a good thing atheist regimes never do purges of religious > > groups. We know that's never happened. > > > > Care to name one (just for my own education)? > > > > -- > > Bob Holtzman > > > Bob, Hal's sarcasm is, alas, justified - revolutionary regimes revolting > against an *ancien régime* that, as all such regimes did, used religion as a > buttress for its rule, have frequently purged not merely those guilty of > crimes, but all believers. By making atheism the ideological pillar of the > new regime, those who weren't atheists were defined by as the Other ; thus > the new regimes repeated the same pattern of oppression as their > predecessors. A casual knowledge of the history of the 20th century will > suffice to call forth examples. But this discussion is not relevant to the > concerns of this list, and should be carried on elsewhere....
My screwup. Not thinking before I posted. Of course you (all) are correct. -- Bob Holtzman GPG key ID = 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch check the price of the beer.
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