Sorry, I meant modern slavery.
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Re: 6 Mil. Jews, 19 Mil. American Indians. Which is worse?
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>Spartacus was a Muslim? Who knew? <
Sorry, I meant modern slavery.
Re: 6 Mil. Jews, 19 Mil. American Indians. Which is worse?
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>Surely, but if they were converted outside of Eretz Israel then that would heavily undermine any historic claim they have to land in what is currently defined as Palestine or Israel.<
Now you're getting it. The Hamas version of history is all ... read more discussion post on Sun, November 22, 2009 - 11:39 AM
Re: 6 Mil. Jews, 19 Mil. American Indians. Which is worse?
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>Their ancestors converted to Judaism,<
Conversion is perfectly valid, and this is under the false assumption you're not talking out of your ass. In fact, every Muslim land was converted by the sword to begin with, if you take the time to open ... read more discussion post on Sun, November 22, 2009 - 10:17 AM
Re: 6 Mil. Jews, 19 Mil. American Indians. Which is worse?
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>What possible vakue or reason is there for ranking which "genocide" is worse, other than an effort to trivialize one genocide or the other? <
Bingo. discussion post on Sun, November 22, 2009 - 9:55 AM
Re: 6 Mil. Jews, 19 Mil. American Indians. Which is worse?
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If you want to go by numbers, then Stalin's genocide of twenty million Jews was "worse" than the Holocaust and the genocide against the Native Americans. However, what's in a number~?
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1. Grab the nearest book 2. Open the book to page 28 3. Find the 3rd sentence 4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your blog (and as a comment on mine) along with these instructions. Do not look for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST book. 5. Tag 5 other people to do the same. Macr... read more 
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I've been thinking a lot about what a God is, and what an Eternal Buddha is. I'm not the best religious scholar in the world, nor even the most pious practitioner; but I have a mind, and some meditative experience, so I do hope my views are somehow beneficial. I will start, if you don't mind, with the thought of God.
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