bam (04/19/83)
The official word from Sydney, Australia (18 hours ahead of the Pacific coast) The world just ended. I'm very sorry to be the one to make the official announcement here but somebody had to say it. East coast and european sites that depend on west coast sites for mail and news will be pleased to know that most west coast hub sites will attempt to remain in operation until the last ten minutes to allow for a clean shutdown. A new newsgroup (net.armageddon) has been formed to provide news and information on future housing and jobs in the afterlife. Bret Marquis bam@NORSGAARD
ebs@mcnc.UUCP (11/11/83)
UNC!tim has made a very good point regarding the seemingly universal interpretation of the book of Revelation by media preachers as referring to an inevitable nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR. This is indeed a real and dangerous indication of Moral Majority Madness. I would like to make two more major points on this issue. FIRST:Christians will be the first to assert that the Jews made their fatal mistake by expecting that the Hebrew prophets' predictions regarding the first coming of the Messiah must be literally fulfilled. The Jews in the Roman empire were apparantly expecting a warrior-messiah who would save them from the Romans. I find it interesting that American christians are so insistant that the Revelation be literally fulfilled; they expect a warrior-messiah to save them from Reagan's "evil empire of Russia". SECOND:This is not the universal Christian attitude. In a recent column, the originator of TV evangilism (Billy Graham) said that he does NOT believe that the Revelation necessarily implies a nuclear holocaust. Rev. Graham went on to suggest that Christians should do all they can to PREVENT war and the resulting destruction of human life. Let's not twist the teachings of the Prince of Peace into a war declaration against Russia. Asbestos ready...... Eddie Stokes ...duke!mcnc!ebs