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  1. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!rosevax!aquarius!grante
  3. From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
  4. Subject: Re: Religion is great!
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.203121.2967@rosevax.rosemount.com>
  6. Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (USENET News administrator)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: aquarius
  8. Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
  9. Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
  10. References: <1992Nov18.153400.16276@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
  11. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:31:21 GMT
  12. Lines: 27
  13.  
  14. entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
  15. : leet@ims.com (Lee Thomas) writes:
  16. : >
  17. : >It might be helpful if you stopped reading Karl Marx for a while, and
  18. : >picked up a biography of Martin Luther instead.  Focus especially on
  19. : >the sale of indulgences, and why Luther opposed that practice ...
  20. : >
  21. : 
  22. : And after that focus on Luther's rabid anti-semitism, second, perhaps,
  23. : only to Hitler's.  Apparently his relationship with God demanded that
  24. : he engage in stereotyping, scapegoating and hatred and other typically
  25. : Christian practices.
  26. : 
  27.  
  28. He's not talking about theological criticisms of Judaism, either.
  29. Luther stated that Synagogues should be burned, Jew's houses should be
  30. destroyed, etc.  The man promoted violence agains the Jewish
  31. community.  I'd be damn embarassed if I called myself a Lutheran.
  32. Actually, I'd be damn embarassed if I called myself a Christian.
  33.  
  34. Of course, Luther wasn't a _real_ Christian.
  35.  
  36. --
  37. Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  WHOA!!  Ken and Barbie
  38. Rosemount Inc.                                |are having TOO MUCH FUN!!  It
  39.                                               |must be the NEGATIVE IONS!!
  40. grante@aquarius.rosemount.com                 |
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