The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> Lord Russell again...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, September 21 2010, 16:11:23 (UTC)
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" Throughout the Middle Ages, the Mohammedans were more civilized and more humane than the Christians. Christians persecuted Jews,especially at times of religious excitement; the Crusades were associated with appalling pogroms. In Mohammedan countries, on the contrary, Jews at most times were not in any way Ill treated." p. 324

...it seems "pogrom" is another word exclusively tied to Christians....along with genocide and, of course, Holocaust.

..I´d like to add that the only reason Christians became less savage and more civilized is because the power of the Church and the influence of Jesus was broken and Humanism gained the stage....except for child-fucking where the Church still tries to keep its monopoly...and here again; were it not for the courts, police and media, all of them civil and not treligious institutions, the Church would go on contently fucking children. It is not BECAUSE of Christianity that Christians have become more civilized but IN SPITE of their religion and church that they have at all improved.

The lesson is that we need LESS Christianity, not more, if we would continue to advance as civilized human beans.

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Lord Russell on the Crusades pancho - Tuesday, September 21 2010, 14:12:21 (UTC)
- More From Bertrand Russell... pancho - 09/21 15:01
  - Lord Russell again... pancho - 09/21 16:11
- Re: Lord Russell on the Crusades Rashad - 09/21 20:53

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