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From: olsen@wxlvax.UUCP (Neil Olsen)
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Subject: Re: A short essay on tolerance
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 11:16:57 EST
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In a reply to the posting of an article containing information about
the orthodox Jews vs the Christian Baptist church in Jerusalem, A.Gross 
made the following ordering of religious intolerants
(from least to most) :
 
1 - The ORTHODOX JEWS of Jerusalem
2 - The ARABS of the Middle-East (They tried to dismantle Israel)
3 - The IRAN and IRAK (they are killing each other's populations)
4 - The SYRIAn regime (he destroyed the city of Hamma)
5 - The Christian Church over the ages (They burned the unfaithful
     non-christians)
 
He concludes that it's bigotry and prejudice to critisize the Orthodox
jews'intolerance of the baptist church in Jerusalem.
NONSENSE !

Were we to apply the same reasoning to the holocausts in the history
of mankind, one could well make an ordering based on the number of 
atrocities commited :

1 - The NAZIS of Germany in the 1930's
2 - The North-Vietnamese in Asia (South Vietanam and Combodge)
    in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
3 - The destruction of the MAYAS and INCAS in central/south America
    several centuries ago.
etc..

..and conclude that it's bigotry and prejudice to make a big fuss about
nazism and the jews!!!
Well, I do not think that's right!!
One cannot justify bad by comparing it to worse.
That's double standard.

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