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FMagyar on June 7, 2009 - 8:27am

It seems to me that a number of factors are very beneficial to western civilization : the relatively low birthrate pushed by christianity, the presence of free enterprise¸ the fact that christian ideology tries to get people to help one another and disregard class, thereby never causing the farming/working class to die off (which happened to muslims, who used slaves, many times in their history, often with disastrous results. Also the fact that christianity was massively opposed to slavery prevented class wars in western europe for a millenium, so a destructive and idiotic state like the muslim mamluks never came into existence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
Cochran
...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski
Damn it!... He's using the Chewbacca defense!

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airdale on June 7, 2009 - 10:00am

Amen.

There are very,very few Christians.

There are very,very many who pretend to be.

I once was a Christian or pretended to be. I am now lost, thank God. There is a God, I am sure. He stands outside the doors of those brick buildings of organized religion and laughs.

For those who are Real Christians? They do not need those buildings. There work is before them and not in those buildings built of stone or brick as tributes to something else,ego,greed,,etc. Where all those egotistical prayers hardly reaches the ceilings. Yes outside the doors where He might wonder...why are they in there when stuff is out here?
Well then to the work...but...........well stuff happens.....

Airdale

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