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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   wrote:   
   >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 s@!$#@y 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 nightmare   
   >man.  I can hardly recall anyone of them talking about those days.   They   
   >just moved on.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Some did not make it back from the front.   
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