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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

LeftishBrit

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3. I once heard of a university history lecturer...

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Thu Aug 16, 2012, 05:34 AM

Aug 2012

who had strong moral and religious objections to war. Very admirable - but in his case, this extended to talking about wars. As he taught a course in '18th century Europaean history', this made life difficult. The students learned all about the 'Causes for Wars' and the 'Peace Treaties', but nothing about what happened in between.

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