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[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by David E

I mean really, how do you account for the differences in Nazi and Jew, Imperial Japanese and Chinese, Muslim Palestinian and Christian Palestinan, Slave master and slave, and other blatant examples I keep pointing out?

Often the difference is the power and cherished freedom to behave badly. There is genocide in the Old Testament. One of the subtler lessons of Hanukkah is how, after the Maccabees helped the Jews overthrow their worldly Hellenic overlords, they basically became just like them. I remember Pope John Paul II berating Poland for its culture of sex and death that emerged after the fall of Soviet Union. And, of course, we've seen how well the loosening of the Soviet bonds has brought out the best in the various Balkan states.