Lefty: I hate to post this in the forum, but I don't know how to contact you privately (I beg members' pardon). You wrote, "More people have been beaten, tortured and murdered in the name of Christ than for any other cause in human history." I have been trying to track down the origin of this quote for some time. In Sam Peckinpah's film, Straw Dogs, Dustin Hoffman's character says something very similar—"No kingdom has been given to so much bloodshed as that of Christ"—and the vicar with whom Hoffman is jousting says "Montesquieu," however I am at a loss to …
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Robbo writes of the missionary effort "in filthy, dirty, oppressive, disease ridden third-world countries" as the only hope for the world, yet notice the empirical terms that Robbo uses to describe the places where missionaries work, and you will begin to see the sort of condescending mindset these people use. Missionaries have always been the front line of colonization--soldiers, guns, and police are needed only for the dissidents who resist conversion that establishes the new social order. I just spent a year in India in a small town where the mayor, who lived in a mansion on the lakeside--choicest real estate …
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