are you relating this to your overall question? I just don't get how you are linking it all.

We all know that the Bible can be taken to prove just about anything. That's why context is so important when reading. Fanatacism is evil applied to any area. Take communism for example, they didn't have the Bible to justify their evil deeds, and they went quite a bit further by slaughtering millions.

> Hitler and the Nazis in our parents
> generation. There are still people who hate
> Jews-and use the Bible to do so. Blacks were
> enslaved using scripture to
> "prove" that they were less than
> equal or even human. Cursed. What is it that
> entices a nation and much of Europe to
> believe it was a good thing to lock up,
> control and silence all Jews; and eventually
> slaughter them. There have been many
> genocides in our generation, Idi Amin, the
> Kurds of Afghanistan, and many more. The
> language that leads a nation or a people to
> wish for the control and slavery of and
> ultimately the extermination of another
> people is an interesting twisting. I think
> Saroman arguments in Tolkien's Lord of the
> Rings are a good example.