Date:         Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:38:16 -0400
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From:         Clark Johnsen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Aren't recordings original sources?
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>>Of course organized religion of all kinds is the worst curse there is upon
this poor planet of ours.  See, e.g. "god is NOT Good."

Huh! And here I might have thought the worst curse was Communism (the Soviet
State's 55 million killings, added to Mao's 35 million), or the Khmer Rouge,
which wiped out one third of Cambodian citizens.

The book to read is Death by Government by R.J. Rummel

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Government-R-J-Rummel/dp/1560009276

Organized religion accounts for relatively few, especially since c.1100 A.D.

clark


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