Originally posted by Swazo:
Look in American history for the people who were able to justify slavery, segregation, and pretty much every other hate crime by quoting the bible.
A small step back, look at how Latin America came to be with the help of christians. It's a consistent effort of christians as a whole, through out it's history to try to wipe out religious diversity by force. Granted, that's mostly the Catholic Church itself.
ALL reasons that religon IS seperate our government and why it should stay that way.

To denounce organized religion isn't something learned in college, as you ASSume. I choose to after growing up where I have, going to school where I have, serving my country in the military, traveling across North America, parts of South America and Europe before I denounced them for myself.






This was a while back but its something else you mentioned that caught my attention. I get your main point but if you could elaborate a bit on the Latin America example I would be interested to hear. My initial reaction to this is that its a way to simplistic theory to blame the woes of Latin America on the Catholic Church. I might be convinced that the church contributes to the problems in that region but I have my doubts.

You went on to say that religious diversity has been compromised there too? By the church and by force? Too much generalization. In case you haven't noticed in your travels to Latin America lately, a christian/born again/evangelical movement has been sweeping across nations. Traditionally catholic regions have been switching over to various christian denominations in droves. Its pretty remarkable.

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