ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) (01/21/85)
Your screens full of double-spaced rambling boil down to yet another instance of "I'm right and everyone who disagrees with me is wrong, so there!" You have made a number of unsupported assertions. I have little doubt you believe these things, but merely stating them, however vehemently, is not automatically cause for others to believe them. Just as you believe that religion, and particularly Christianity, is responsible for all social progress, I believe that social progress requires a government that respects individual rights and an economic system based on capitalism. What is more, I can give you concrete evidence for my belief: those countries that are the most prosperous are exactly those that are the most free. One of the important aspects of a government that respects individual rights is that it does not attempt to force the precepts of any particular religion, or of any religion at all, on its citizens. And that is why your religions arguments have no bearing on my question, which has to do with the proper actions of a government in a free society.