At 5:22 PM -0400 4/9/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>X-Loop: openpgp.net
>From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> >> I believe it was either Stalin or Goering who, when told the Catholic
>> >> Church disapproved of their latest genocide, replied "So how many
>> > > divisions does the Pope have?"
>> >
>> >Stalin. The Pope won.
>
>> Really? And here we thought that Stalin's side in WWII was on the
>> victorious side and the Vatican's side, in Italy, was on the losing
>> side.
>
>Last time I checked, Stalin was dead, USSR has a lot of problems, and the
You're grossly abusing the English language if you claim that Stalin
was a loser _because_ he is now dead.
"Hey, get used to it. Aristotle lost, Newton lost, even Rand lost.
They're all dead. So, there!"
The discussion you guys were engaged in was in the context of (the
local environment, the closure, whatever terms one prefers) World War
II. The Russians were luckily on the winning side, the Vatican was on
the Axis side.
Claims that Stalin lost because he's now dead and that Pope Pius won
because his successors are breeding are a disservice to the debate.
--Tim May
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