3rd April 2004, 12:56 PM
No nation has ever been Communist. They're all just disguised dictatorships. I don't know if any nation could... Marx is just too idealistic for his system to work in the real world. So saying Communism killed that many people is only true by the letter, in fact it was dictators that did it...
Oh, and the Bible. Look, it was written a LONG time ago... obviously some of its morality is not the same as ours. This is a fact; you can't deny it. We don't think exactly the same way now that we did then about these things. They prohibited plenty of things we allow and had much harsher punishments as well, as was normal in the ancient world... I'm not saying it's all bad or anything (obviously some things in it are good), just that you can't take it all as true or not (I'm sure that many of the legends in it are based on some fact, like legends often are... like the Flood and that fairly convincing theory that it (since so many cultures in the area have one its existance is thought to have happened in some form) was the flooding of the Black Sea when the Meditteranean broke through the Bosphorus...). The contradictions, like that second creation story in Genesis, support that as well.
Oh, and the Bible. Look, it was written a LONG time ago... obviously some of its morality is not the same as ours. This is a fact; you can't deny it. We don't think exactly the same way now that we did then about these things. They prohibited plenty of things we allow and had much harsher punishments as well, as was normal in the ancient world... I'm not saying it's all bad or anything (obviously some things in it are good), just that you can't take it all as true or not (I'm sure that many of the legends in it are based on some fact, like legends often are... like the Flood and that fairly convincing theory that it (since so many cultures in the area have one its existance is thought to have happened in some form) was the flooding of the Black Sea when the Meditteranean broke through the Bosphorus...). The contradictions, like that second creation story in Genesis, support that as well.