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Article: Jesus and the Christians.(Letter to the editor)
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- Quadrant
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- September 1, 2006
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SIR: The long letter of P.J. Moss (July-August 2006) deserves a fuller reply but I will only make three points. Mr Moss obviously thinks that the horrors committed in the name of Christianity (the Inquisition) or by people living in so-called Christian countries (such as the Mafia, the IRA, and the Loyalist gangs in Northern Ireland) are a respectable intellectual argument against the Christian faith itself. His argument expressed in logical form would go something like this: the (Italian) Mafia are based in Italy, Italy is a Christian country, the Mafia are bad, therefore the Christian faith is bad. The second premise is only partly true and the fallacy in the last step ...