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From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Religion and the Government
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 11:39:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 11:39:43 1984
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Bob,
  You may be right about your figures and the fact that political reasons have
accounted for more deaths than religious ones have, but you fail to notice the
differences between technologies available to both groups of persecutors and
the differences in world population levels. Had the Inquisition the means and 
the number of victims available that Hitler, Lennin, et al had, I've no doubt
whatsoever that they would have killed at least an equal number of people.
Just because the religious fanatics have killed fewer people than dictators 
have, they are no less dangerous. The viciousness of a regime (either
religious or political) is not measured by the number of victims but by the
zeal with which they pursue them.  
-- 


                        Yrs. in Fear and Loathing,
                             The Blue Buffalo
                              Haunted by the -

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