: Samuel, my dear chap,: Perhaps that explains 15 people dead in Littleton, Colorado.
: When children are taught in the state school system (and even a rather wealthy one at that) that they are little more than mere animals, it isn't too long before they start to act like animals, is it?
SDF: I'm sure Christopher Columbus' Christian beliefs explain his slaughter of the Hispaniola natives too... he killed thousands of them, according to Bartolome de las Casas... there are also the good Christians of Guatemala who practiced genocide against the Maya, supported by US training and funding... and we can always talk about the Albigensian Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Thirty-Years War... all horrors of history committed by self-proclaimed Christians.
oh and BTW the kids who did the killing were Hitler-worshippers, not only weren't they mere animals, but they were members of the Master Race as well... the point is that the ones who kill are smugly self-assured of their superiority to those they're killing.
"Walk lightly on the Earth." -Gary Snyder
