Some observations

Submitted by David W. Lincoln (Canada), May 14, 2007 at 12:23

By your statement that all churches, as well as mosques, especially in China, should be closed - you are showing that you are either ignorant of, or biased against, the oldest face of history as identified by Max Dimont in "Jews, God & History". Which also makes you biased against, or ignorant of, what Malachi Martin wrote about Antonio Gramsci in "The Keys of this blood".

I see history as decisions made, and there has been progress.

Plus, you were miffed at me from the get-go when I mentioned that decision by Turkish politicians. For I see room for the capabaility of that decision being made by others. Which speaks to the point that there is something to be said about decisions made, regardless of where and when they are made.

Lastly, I conclude that you would take the route by Christopher Hitchens' in that you would ignore this statement: all that is defined is real, but there are realities which transcend description.

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