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   From: chine.bleu@yahoo.com   
      
   In article ,   
    RVG  wrote:   
      
   > The French Republic is the fruit of reason and universal right.   
   > So was the French Resistance.   
      
   The first republic went around murderring priests and then anyone else that was   
   too reasonable for the passions of the day. That republic decayed into anarchy   
   until Napoleon took over.   
      
   France is on its fifth republic, and this one looks like a keeper. Like other   
   stable modern governments, it's less concerned with some darn fool idealistic   
   crusade about Reason, and more concerned with pragmatics of actual society,   
   including accomodating the religions of its citizens.   
      
   > course Stalin (himself an orthodox priest) created a new ruling class   
      
   Are you saying Stalin killed other priests in the name of atheism to make   
   himself the Russian pope?   
      
   Communists made up a big part of the Resistance, which is why they were more   
   important after June 1941   
      
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