BA> J>>> Well now, daggummit, lookie here! Religion ain't t' make ya
BA> J>>> happy, theys supposed to set you free!

BA> BA>> Organized religion has done a pretty fair job of enslaving
BA> BA>> people over the past five or six thousand years.

BA> JB> Not as much as communist, socialist and dictatorial
BA> JB> governments.

BA>I think organized religion beats all of them - note that in many
BA>cases the religion was allied with the governments...

BA> JB>  How  many millions have died due to
BA> JB> governments ?   

BA>R J Rummel wrote a book on exactly that subject, it's titled
BA>"Death by Government."  Of course, he only researched back
BA>to about 1900.  The answer is tens of millions - and that's
BA>in less than a century...  Go back six millenia and the numbers
BA>are uncountable.

I'll need to see the numbers to be convinced otherwise.  


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 
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