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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: China: Government Starts Phasing Out American Processors, Operating Systems on Government Computers
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:25:03 -0700
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 01:14:41 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
wrote:

>Am 01.04.24 um 22:05 schrieb john larkin:
>
>>>>>>> The Ten Commandments was a good start.
>
>I'm missing the 11th, I could probably find more:
>
>Thou shalt not have slaves!
>
>>>>>> Show me the Ten Commandments in the US Constitution.
>
>>>> https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/01/athiest-richard-dawkins-says-he-would-choose-christianity-over-islam-every-single-time/
>
>Dawkins, an avid atheist, prefers Christian principles, as did some of
>>>> the atheist signers of the constitution. I wonder if Dawkins is
>>>> getting religious in his final years.
>
>No, he just sorts religions by evilness.
>

He recently called himself "a cultural Christian" and says that he
prefers to live in a country based on Christian principles. That's
sensible.


>
>> Western religions have converged to peaceful co-existence. Muslim 
>> factions sure haven't.
>> 
>> "Christianity is the religion of life, and Islam is the religion of 
>> death."
>
>The last witch burnt on the stake in Europe was Anna Göldi from
>Switzerland in 1782, 5 years earlier than your constitution.

We've made progress in 250 years. Isn't that good?



>And the US had 12 years of peace since then, so much for the praise
>of peaceful coexistence.
>
>
>When I was on Iceland with the motorbike, I stumbled across this
>tombstone/memorial of a Catholic Bishop who was killed together
>with his two sons (!) because he insisted in staying catholic
>and not turning protestant. Same religion, wrong flavour is enough.
>It's not that our clerics here are any better. It's just that
>there is now some social pressure not to kill people.
>
>< 
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/137684711@N07/36066682984/in/dateposted-public/ 
>     >
>
>The 2 sons of the bishop did not make it on the memorial as
>living proof of their fathers sins.
>Or really, no longer living proof.
>
>Or read about the crusade against the Albigenses in southern
>France with the killings of the towns of Béziers & Carcasonne.
>Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius!
>Latin: Kill them all! The Lord will know those on His side!
>(Attribute translation errors to me.)
>
>Nothing has killed more people than religion except maybe
>smallpox and the plague.

Most people once lived in tribes of around 150 people. Around 25% of
males died in tribal warfare.