hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ernest Hua) (03/07/85)
_______________________________________________________________________ > { from don black at ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nisysg!black } > > As far as Communism being part of the Antichrist conspiracy, > I do believe the answer to that is painfully obvious. As I have > previously stated, there were over 600 churches in the city of > Moscow prior to the Bolshevik revolution. Today there are less > than 60. The American Communist Party was one of the biggest > contributors to the great atheist theologian, Madalyn Murray > O'Hare, during her vendetta to remove prayer from the government > schools. (Let me add a few more interesting statistics about the > altruism of the Bolsheviks. In the first 12 months of the Com- > munist regime, they are known to have murdered 31 bishops, 1650 > priests and ministers, and over 2 million Chistian lay people. > How much more anti-Christ can a group be?) "Painfully"? "OBVIOUS"? Where have you been? Why don't you tell us the TOTAL figure for the number of lives terminated by the Bol- sheviks. I could say that there were X million women killed, and therefore, they must be ANTI-WOMEN! Gee, how enraging! Painfully obvious? Only if one looks solely at your words and nothing else, and only if one is easily fooled by such rhetoric. (Lucky for you, people ARE easily fooled by such rhetoric.) > And then there are those "Americans" who would want a Com- > munist government here in the US. I have an answer for them, > but most people get squeamish at the thought. I fear no man, and > when I'm dead and buried, there's more like me to take my place. Unfortunately, there will always be more of you to take your place. But hopefully, people will see that returning to your "traditional values" implies returning to days of bigotry, ra- cism, prejudice, sexual oppression, etc... Don't tell me you be- lieve that we could possibly accomplish the return without these and other old "goodies". By the way, you want a return to a CHRISTIAN traditional environment. What's wrong with other trad- itional environments? Why traditional at all? { CONJECTURE } I believe that you are terribly confused and naive. You just want things that are nice. You want your life to be planned out for you. You want the easy way out. You want Heaven to there for you when your life ends. You want to avoid all the problems in life that you have to face, or else justify them with some- thing to the effect of "God knows best, so I will just accept it for now." You can make up excuses for all of this, but you are not facing reality for what it is. You keep reaching for the rosy glasses of yesterday that helped you ignore the problems of the world. { CONJECTURE } Did you ever notice how carefree a child is? Noticed that it is so happy and unsophisticated? I would like the happiness. I would like to avoid the problems. But returning to blind faith in some thousand-year-old book of fairy tales is not going to help me face these problems, and I really don't see how miserable I could possibly be right now. I'm only disgusted that you and others like you are trying to blind me with tall tales. Don't you think you ought to justify the validity of the Scriptures if you want so much for everyone to return to it? Don't you think you ought to justify what you are saying with some facts? I bet you get them from some Chris- tian magazine (God forbid should you read anything else!) like The Plain Truth, which, like the Moral Majority, simply isn't. The "good'ole days" were only old. _______________________________________________________________________ Keebler