The recent debate over the merits of the Chinese government’s move to ban Falun Gong has been quite thought-provoking. Obviously, the Chinese government, well-known for its fairness on human rights issues, is exercising correct and humane judgement.

Perhaps the American government could learn a thing from the Chinese. Christianity, with its history steeped in violence, has become a source of violence in our populace and should be banned.

Do not get me wrong, I used to be a Christian, so I can speak freely on the topic and everything I say is the truth.

I will liberally add references to my favorite books, which I can assure you speak nothing but the truth.

Did you know that 86.57 percent of all Christians never attend mass? Are you aware that somewhere a Christian commits a murder-rape every .83 seconds (Matthew 1:69)? This means that thousands of Christians are currently killing someone. Did you know that Hitler was a Christian (Mien Kampf 2:61)?

I once heard a story about a Christian who committed murder-suicide by carrying his wife off of a 42nd floor balcony (Fizer 1:12). This demonstrates without a doubt that Christianity is wrong and should never be practiced.

Freedom of religion is overrated. The Chinese have it right. If a religion sounds kooky, ban it. It is about time that we followed the lead of our Chinese brothers and banned Christianity. Who needs freedom of religion anyway?

Paul Hattan

Junior

Mechanical engineering