...and require the mutilation of male ones without anaesthesia,
and drive out the natives of their "promised land" by burning
every structure and every inhabitant of them.
> 9. When Christianity was first established, its first order of
> business was to prohibit slavery and pederasty.
The Catholic church wholly approved of slavery, and campaigned
against abolitionists in the US. Today they spend thousands of
dollars defending child-molesting priests and covering up the
evidence that it is widespread. Need I even mention the Crusades,
the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials? Ah, but such
things could never happen today, right? We now have a kind and
benevolent pope--who tells women they'll go to hell for using
birth control. And protestant clergy who burn books and abortion
clinics. And Christian Scientists who let their children die in
pain rather than give then medical treatment.
> 10. When Islam was first established, its first order of business
> was to prohibit infanticide.
...and institutionalize the slavery of women, which continues today.
Does the word "jihad" ring a bell?
> 12. Make a case against faith if you can. History will not help you.
You have a pretty selective memory. I agree with you that religious
faith is no more or less heinous than faith in other dogmas like
socialism, but the history of all of them is bloody.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>