"Religion and freedom have never really gotten along" Perhaps Mr. Katz has forgotten that Ghandi was a holy man and Martin Luther King Jr. was a baptist minister. The Solidarity movement in Poland couldn't have brought down the totalitarian goverment there and started a chain reaction throughout Eastern Europe without John Paul II's support. If you weigh the closing of theaters on Fridays and battles over violent games against winning rights for millions of African-Americans or freedom for hundreds of millions of Eastern Europeans, you'll notice that religion does alot of good things, too. Admittedly, many Christians in the news lately have been facist idiots, but such a strong anti-religious statement is unsupported by facts.
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"Religion and freedom have never really gotten along"
Perhaps Mr. Katz has forgotten that Ghandi was a holy man and Martin Luther King Jr. was a baptist minister. The Solidarity movement in Poland couldn't have brought down the totalitarian goverment there and started a chain reaction throughout Eastern Europe without John Paul II's support. If you weigh the closing of theaters on Fridays and battles over violent games against winning rights for millions of African-Americans or freedom for hundreds of millions of Eastern Europeans, you'll notice that religion does alot of good things, too. Admittedly, many Christians in the news lately have been facist idiots, but such a strong anti-religious statement is unsupported by facts.