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On that last point what taxes did the colonists actually paid prior to ~1763? They may have paid indirect taxes as did everybody although with widespread evasion by smuggling and the like but as I understand it it was only after the 7YW that London decided that the colonists should pay...

Interesting review. Does seem to go somewhat OTT in places. Many belief systems are basically religious in nature I fully agree and have done for years. Its just what sort of belief systems they are. Some are at heart and frequently over their periods of power intolerant and some aren't...

I'm sorry you think that way but I've very much a believer in the old idea that "for evil to triumph it's necessary only that the good do nothing". APT is presenting a view that people are just property with no rights or interests of their own and that's something I must oppose. Most of us...

Well he obviously didn't "make the church" as none of those organisations came into existence until long after he was dead. He set forward ideas on how people should live and treat others which pretty much all those organisations have largely ignored. Plus your missing my key point. As you...

Actually your showing your ignorance of science as well. There is agreement on what is factual depending on the evidence but that can and will change. As opposed to your viewpoint that your beliefs are correct reguardless of the evidence and that when they contradict that your will changes...

Well I understand that what Jesus said and did is seriously at odds with the behaviour of most/all church structures. You and ATP don't because those church power structures and their interests are more important to you than what the person you claim speaks for god actually said. You mean...

I'm not the one here using 'Soviet speech' and ideas. Your the blind fanatic who clings to doctrine above all information and knowledge. I know what the papacy has often taught because I've studied history. Lord Acton's famous phase actually came about when the papacy broke with the idea...

I think that's the case. He's referring to the four gospels recognised by the western churches.

Your misreading my statement. I didn't say totalitarianism is worse in Abrahamic religions than in other totalitarian systems. Just that as I stated they are fundamentally totalitarian. That's a simple matter of fact. If an ideology says X is the only right option and everything else is...

That like saying there's no difference between pricked with a pin and having your arm cut off. All institutions involve power and hence should be treated with caution. Totalitarian ones reject any check on their demands.

Read the article I linked to. Plus I will repeat what I said in another post. Are you claiming to have read those documents in their original Aramaic or Greek or just accepting what your been told? Except that while some aspects of Jesus's teaching suggest that its a point that most...

As I say the evidence suggests otherwise. But then we will have to agree to differ. ;) I don't hate Christianity. I'm just aware of human nature and hence how disastrous totalitarian systems can be - which is what all the Abrahamic faiths are in practice when corrupt groups get hold of them...

That's your viewpoint.

I think for Hitler the bad thing about a French intervention that forces him to back down over the Rhineland is that it stays demilitarized. So even if the army or some other group don't remove him his later adventures in Austria, Sudetenland, Bohemia and Poland vary between a hell of a lot...

Somewhat debatable conclusion. See this for an alternative viewpoint.