Replying to a message of Jeff Binkley to Bob Ackley:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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