Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!ethan From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: War and Death Message-ID: <682@utastro.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:02:44 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.682 Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:02:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 06:01:54 EDT References: <856@ihuxp.UUCP> <272@umcp-cs.UUCP> <865@ihuxp.UUCP><190@calmasd.UUCP>, <249@we53.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 20 [] >>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