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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: War and Death
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:02:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:02:44 1984
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>>What about the Crusades?

>This brings up a popular misconception about Christianity.
>The abomination that was the Roman Catholic Church at the time of the
>Crusades and into the Middle Ages was only a popular counterfeit of
>the church that was founded by Jesus and his followers.

It works like this.  If you claim to be a Christian, but I don't approve
of you then you are not a *real* Christian.  As a consequence Christianity
can do no wrong.

The above syllogism can, and has been, applied to almost every religion
and secular ideology in existence.
  
"I can't help it if my     Ethan Vishniac
    knee jerks"         {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                           Department of Astronomy
                           University of Texas
                           Austin, Texas 78712