From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:12:34 +0100, Jeroen Belleman   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/9/26 01:50, john larkin wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 00:57:24 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Am 08.01.26 um 22:39 schrieb bitrex:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Incidentally, Bertrand Russell once said that if humans really believed   
   >>>> there was a God and an afterlife they'd have no fear of death, but as   
   >>>> many US soldiers who fought in Afghanistan could attest (and part of the   
   >>>> reason the US ain't there no more) is there are definitely a substantial   
   >>>> number of religious people out there who don't give one single shit   
   >>>> about dying.   
   >>>   
   >>> Religion and killing have been best friends forever.   
   >>>   
   >>> Gerhard   
   >>   
   >> I seem to recall "thou shalt not kill" from somewhere.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> John Larkin   
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   >It also says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" somewhere.   
      
   That must be somewhere esle.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments   
      
      
   >Substitute "witch" with anything you don't like.   
   >   
   >Religion is, and has always been, fertile ground for killing.   
      
   The 10c's were an early and critical step in The Enlightment. As was   
   the Reformation, English common law and the Magna Carta, and the US   
   Constitution as amended.   
      
      
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   >Jeroen Belleman   
      
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