XPost: can.general, can.politics, edm.general   
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   Butteye Jest wrote   
      
   > Anachore is right on this one about revenge. Quite a vengeful god   
   > sending floods, and wiping out whole cities and all. But regardless of   
   > trying to decipher scripture, Christianity is a system of commanding   
   > others to do what some Christian addled brain thinks is right, threats   
   > if you don't and punishment for doing wrong or being "too" different.   
   >   
   > Research psychologist know that punishment does not work well at all on   
   > humans, and may even have the reverse effect. No wonder the prisons are   
   > so continuously full, no wonder the wars the west gets into don't work   
   > out well. No wonder there's so many people that can't make it in fucked   
   > up Christian countries. No wonder the west is full of dysfunctional   
   > sheep and other right-wing morons praying to their wholely ghost,   
   > instead of rationally figuring out the problems.   
   > My take on it anyway...   
   >   
      
   I didn't see him wearing a poppy with a Swastika in the middle, so what kind   
   of Nazi is he?   
      
   A shitty one, if you ask me.   Just kidding.   
      
   My buddy's dad was in the Wehrmacht, lived in my neighbourhood and led a   
   splendid life.   Still does to this day.   
      
   My old man was in the RCAF, just about everyone else on the street was with   
   the allied forces in WW2.   My mother and father lost more friends from their   
   high school days in that period than I have lost so far at the age of 52.   
      
   But my buddy's dad was grabbed at 16 in Berlin, forcibly inducted in the   
   army, sent to fight the Russians, captured.  Then released in 1950 from a   
   Soviet POW camp, and they gave him his uniform back!   
      
   And guys like him remember the horror of the war just like anyone else.  No   
   Swastikas.  He's not anti Jew, he doesn't have visions of Hitler.   
      
   Like my dad, my uncles and their friends, his was all a big fucking nightmare   
   man.  I can hardly recall anyone of them talking about those days.   They   
   just moved on.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)