rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey) (05/03/85)
> Bill reminds us of the Holocaust of World War II, and may wonder what > pacifists would do in the face of this. It is hard to say whether one should > fight or flee; but the alternative is to speak the truth publicly with the > risk of suffering, as Jesus did, so that the conscience of mankind, placed in > our hearts by God, may be appealed to. > I might mention that a number of readers of this Net group have > commended the reply of (Bill) Jeffreys about our moral obligation to publicly > repudiate those who deny the Holocaust and similar atrocities; we should not > let ourselves become so hard-hearted or fearful or vain that we fail to speak > against what is clearly evil, since otherwise we shall someday allow someone > to decieve us into strutting about in his uniform. Anyway, at the risk of > embarassing him, I just happen to know that Bill Jeffreys is a Quaker. And > even if he would disavow being called a "Christian", perhaps preferring to > munch on zen koans for enlightenment, rather than the Gospel parables, I would > call him the true Christian, having the true spirit of Christ. > You should understand that many pacifists are disaffected with the > atrocious history of so-called 'Christian salvation'. A public note of thanks to David Harwood. It's people like him, and Bill Jefferys (whom he mentions above), and Dave Trissel, and others, who have shown me that there are Christians who actually believe in Christianity and not just in spouting Christianity. A sharp contrast to those like Charley Wingate, and Dave Brown (with his pseudo-pacifism), and Steve Hutchison, and Paul Dub*, and Larry Bickford (where has *he* been?), who seem to feel it is more important to prove that Christianity as a system of beliefs is perfect and correct than to act on the good tenets it *does* have, and admit where it has had its faults, and work to correct them. Thank you. -- Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr