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Flame » in reply to re: "unquestioning obedience and brutal domination"

"I can name you 4 times..." No, you can't.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Go do the numbers. This source isn't a bad one. Damn straight I want to "go there."

Unless you try to bend the definitions far enough to make Mao, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot, and Kim Jong-il into "religious leaders," the murders due to true religious wars and tyrannies, while terrible enough on their own, are dwarfed by the hundred million slain by these regimes.

As for painting with a broad brush, I see dozens of opinions every day that make the leadership of Iran exactly equivalent to the leadership of America, because both men state that they believe in God.

If I took a survey in the 1980s at a meeting of fervent Democrats, I would bet you that most would tell me that the theocratic Reagan was a greater threat to world peace than the Soviet Union was. And I could get the same answers now about Bush and radical Islam.

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