[net.religion] If the shoe fits...{I'm With Tim!}

amra@ihu1n.UUCP (s. aldrich) (03/28/85)

> A quote from barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Mon Mar 25 15:06:18 1985:
> 
> > 	A number of people have asked why Christians on the net have
> > been unwilling to criticize Don Black for the nonsense he's been posting.
> > I think the reason is obvious: the Christians are obeying the Eleventh
> > Commandment - "Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Christians when
> > non-believers are present". Christians are not the only group which follow
> > such a solidarity rule, and the rest of us should not be too quick to
> > assume that silence implies tacit agreement.
> 
> Sorry, Kenn, that just ain't true.  Christianity has always (and I mean from
> early Roman days to the present) been known for the violence of its
> infighting.  For present-day examples, look at them flame the Mormons and
> Jehovah's Witnesses, or listen to the multitudes of Protestants who will
> openly announce to one and all that Catholics aren't real Christians.  The
> facts are practically the opposite of what you claim, and that is what makes
> the silence of most Christians on this issue suspicious.  If they felt that
> there was some important doctrinal disagreement, they'd be all over the
> theocrats, as they usually are with "heretics".  As it is, it seems that
> they feel the differences are so small that they are not worth arguing
> about, if there are any differences.
> 
> Of course, we must give proper credit to those Christians like Charley
> Wingate who ARE taking cretins like Black to task.  Well done, Charley.
> (Sorry, Byron, you don't count. :-> )
> -=-
> Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
> ARPA:	Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K	uucp:	seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim
> CompuServe:	74176,1360	audio:	shout "Hey, Tim!"


{You unlock this door with the key to imagination.....}

  Tim,

 My congratulation on another fine "rebuttal" to the "silent majority's" :-)
 non-response to Black's rabble-rousing. Your points about the Christians
 not having much (if any) reluctance to "flame" against us "heretics" is
 well put! I've noticed this "tendancy" myself on numerous occassions.

  Also if someone such as you or myself had posted an "article" similiar to
 Don Black's, we'd be inundated with "death-threats"! { 1/2 :-) }

  Hell, you were the "victim" of such a "Christian" purge at UNC for
 saying things which "irked" some Christians. But, Don Black can have
 "free-reign" without so much as a wimper from "most" Christians in this
 media. What UTTER Hypocracy, they "claim" we secular-humanists are out
 to "purge the Christians" yet largely ignore the RAVINGS of this RACIST!
 I'm disgusted by the "NON-RESPONSE" and will  continue to express my
 shock and outrage at this!

  Best Regards,
 Steve Aldrich (ihnp4!ihu1n!amra)

 "...Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the
 winds long to play with your hair."