Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article To : alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.dx,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.policy From : Matt Osborn Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 18:33:00 From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:33:19 -0400, Michael Coslo wrote: > > >Tom Ring wrote: >> Tom Ring wrote: >> >>> Matt Osborn wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> A few thousand compared to 50 million? >>>> >>> >>> Well that certainly makes it ok. You mean you aren't an absolutist? >>> >>> tom >>> K0TAR >>> >> >> The difference between me and you is that I know it's always wrong, and >> you seem to have left an opening for your "religion" to do evil things >> becuase your morality says it's ok. >> >> I'm sorry that you can't understand that an atheist can have morals not >> tied to superstition, but to to true right and wrong. > >First Crusade: > > 12,000 Jews killed in the Rhine valley. > 6000 killed in Jerusalem when they torched the synagogue there > 30,000 Muslims killed at the al Aqsa mosque. > at least 200,000 killed over the length of the crusades. > > Then let us not forget the Iquisitions, witch-hunts and other jollies >that went on. > > And there is plenty more to go around on all sides. Appears > > We're a long way from "a few thousand". > > But as the recent poster Mike has noted, this is pretty off topic, so >I'll refrain from any more posting in this thread. > Were along way from 50 million or more as well. The above, of course, with the possible exception of the Rhine Valley incident, were done in war. The crusades include the synagogue in Jerusalem and the Muslims killed in the Mosque. Numbers so nice we count them twice? -- msosborn at msosborn dot com .