[FoRK] The Golden Compass: AWEsome!

[Luis Villa]

On Dec 3, 2007 12:49 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Aaron Burt wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:02:34AM -0700, Lion Kimbro wrote:
> >>   This, I guess, is how atheists kill Free Inquiry;
> >>
> >>   They try to get anybody who goes against
> >>   their agenda, committed to the loony bin.
> >
> > Persecution complex much?
> >
> > Which reminds me, anyone else think the Christian Extremists learned
> > their "we must subjugate the State and destroy the unbelievers because
> > we're just defending ourselves" stance from the Muslim Extremists?
> >
> > Or is it just part of the pathology?
>
> Doubtful, but open for historical study.

"Subjugate the state because we're just defending ourselves" is a
Christian idea from before Mohammed; see Constantine.

> I think it would be interesting to set up a kind of open, Wikipedia-
> like collaborative effort to place any and all historical events on a
> unified, searchable, filterable, linkable, annotation-friendly
> timeline.  Anyone aware of such a thing?

Not that I know of, but please do let me know if you find it.

Luis