I'd like to second Chuck Pelto's remark: you have merely passed along the same anticlerical propaganda that was promulgated at the time of the Enlightenment. In so doing, you've displayed a type of "irrational superstition" about religion.

I'm sure I'd suggest you read some very fine books on the subject, starting with, perhaps, Regine Pernoud's book "Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths", among others.

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Posted by Anonymous to Thrutch at 3/03/2006 12:23:08 PM