Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site tellab1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Religion and the Government Message-ID: <233@tellab1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 11:39:43 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab1.233 Posted: Mon Jun 4 11:39:43 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 01:20:57 EDT References: <356@teldata.UUCP>, <801@akgua.UUCP> Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Ill. Lines: 31 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 - /\ /\ / /~~~~~~\ \ ( ( \ / ) ) \ [~] [~] / \ / || \ / \ /||\ / ~~~ G \(^^)/ ) o h `--'\ ( z o \) n s o t of G ...!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd