Re: Larry Niven: Terrorize Latinos to Solve Health Care Crisis

Quadibloc wrote:
> On May 4, 11:28 am, Gene <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> It would be classed as fantasy except for the fact that it
>> actually happened. But both make my point, which is the
>> unimaginative diagnosis of schizophrenia when someone re****ts
>> hallucinations doesn't always fit the facts.
> 
> No, Muhammad *should* have been placed in a padded cell instead of
> being listened to.
> 
> The spread of Islam caused untold human misery, whether to the Jews
> that lived in Arabia, the people of Afghanistan (forcibly converted to
> Islam from Buddhism), the Christians of the Balkans (forced to give up
> their firstborn sons to become Janissaries) - had the people in Arabia
> simply *known* that someone, however charismatic, who proposes *the
> initiation of force* against others without just cause cannot
> _possibly_ be speaking for God, he would not have acquired a
> following.
> 
> John Savard

Because we all know the Christians never did anything like this....