"Jeff" wrote in message
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Vito wrote:
Religious fundamentalism is the enemy of all mankind. Europeans were
afraid
to explore west because the church told them they would sail off the
edge of
the world - never mind that ancient Egyptians and Greeks had not only
determined that Earth was round but estimated its diameter.

Nonsense. Everyone (except apparently Columbus) thought that China
was simply too far away.

Please cite where round Earth was official church position vs square with
four corners.

Israel almost
died abirthing when Jewish fundamentalists demanded that the rest stop
defending themselves for Sabbath (Fortunately they didn't listen).

More nonsense. There may have been such fundamentalists, but the
chances that anyone would listen to them on that point was about zero.
Remember the original fighters were secular Jews, not ultra-orthodox.

Nonsense only because you don't want to hear it. You admit there were such
fundies. Obviously few listened (Jews won didn't they) but what if they had
listened? Makes my point - fundies were worse enemies than Arabs were.

Scientists know that the Earth will become another Easter Island if we
do
not limit population but only the "Godless Communists" in China are
doing
so.

Yet more nonsense. The world population is already leveling off.

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

An additional 60 million/yr is leveling off???