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Christians and Gypsies
Posted by atheist (Guest) - Tuesday, May 11 2010, 17:50:45 (UTC)
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...just finished "The Gypsies" by Angus Fraser, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1992. Their origins and history are fascinating...and what is even more interesting is the contrast between the way they were treated by the Christians of Europe and the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, where over half of them lived. Hitler's mass murders of Gypsies, as his mass murder of Jews, was nothing new in Christian history. He simply refined it, mechanized it, industrialized it and made it a central part of his government.

To quote Mr Fraser, referring to the Ottomans;

"One finds within this empire no counterpart to the systematically repressive legislation which Gypsies faced in the rest of Europe. Usually the Ottomans respected the customs and institutions of subject communities, which were ruled with the aid of their own authorities."

In contrast the Christians regularly took Gypsy children from their parents to "raise Christian", as well as torturing, hanging, murdering and even hunting them for bounty.

It seems incredible that Bet-Shlimon and the rest prefer to maintain such complete ignorance of the actual, historically factual, details of the real behavior of their co-religionists, while yapping about what "true" Christians are SUPPOSED to be. It is like ignoring all the millions of bad doctors who regularly slaughter their patients in favor of bragging about what good doctors SHOULD be like.

But their preference for ignorance well explains just why they present such a ludicrous sight...with their letters to presidents and petitions to the United Nations etc. Also why they sound so damn stupid on those rare occasions when they attempt to engage in open-ended and unmonitored debate.

They are the ones who INSIST on remaining primitive, dumb, and stupid too. But, they FEEL good because they believe they are being REAL Christians as a result; because they keep bragging about how wonderful their religion is SUPPOSED to be, while turning a blind eye to what is has actually DONE...and is doing.



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