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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: On topic? Right!
- Message-ID: <1453@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 21:11:47 GMT
- References: <n0df3t@ofa123.fidonet.org> <1992Nov11.030810.1913@hfsi.uucp> <MMEYER.92Nov12110935@m2.dseg.ti.com>,<roelle.721593063@uars_mag> <1dun6bINNkrp@gap.caltech.edu>,<roelle.721669238@uars_mag> <1e0q8iINNl8q@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1e0q8iINNl8q@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- |> Please note, I said "self-policing." Perhaps you don't know what that term
- |> means. It means that an organization with whom a person is affiliated makes
- |> that affiliation conditional upon behavior of the individual. E.g., if a
- |> televangelist is affiliated with a particular church, and behaves in a way
- |> inconsistent with the policies of that church, it's incumbent upon that church
- |> (not the government, which is what the guarantee of religious freedom is all
- |> about) to sever the association with the individual.
-
- O.K., so now the televangelist simply goes out and starts his own church, and
- ordains himself.
-
- And do not think this is all that unusual - many of the televangelists, especially
- the most obnoxious of them, *already* have thier own church (or just what do you
- think PTL or the Crystal Cathedral is?).
-
- Given the ease of doing this, there really is *no* *way* to do any 'self-policing'.
-
- |> They purport to represent the churches with which they're affiliated. If the
- |> churches don't publicly disagree with those claims, we must assume that they DO
- |> indeed represent those churches. As I said, self-policing is a must.
-
- If you will check, you will find only a small handfulk of televangelists are
- actually affiliated with the mainline denominations.
-
- Oh there are *some*, but they are mostly the less objectionable ones (or even
- the occasional good one).
-
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- sarima@teradata.com (formerly tdatirv!sarima)
- or
- Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
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