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- From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO)
- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up? Was: What did Judas betray?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.190030.2601@hfsi.uucp>
- Reply-To: ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata - FSO)
- Organization: HFSI, McLean VA.
- References: <1992Dec24.172824.12799@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec27.235003.4413@rosevax.rosemount.com> <eharbin.725547983@convex.convex.com> <1hnejhINNnna@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:00:30 GMT
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- In article <1hnejhINNnna@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <eharbin.725547983@convex.convex.com>, eharbin@convex.com (Edward Harbin) writes:
- >>In <1992Dec27.235003.4413@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
- >>
- >>>Thousands (if not millions) of people have been tortured and killed in
- >>>the service of christianity. Even the thousand-year old conflict
- >>>between the celts and the anglo-saxons is now reported as a conflict
- >>>between protestants and catholics.
- >>
- >>On the other hand, in what non-Christian country would you choose to live?
- >
- >How about in one of the many cultures that used to exist but have been
- >completly destroyed by Christian evangelism?
- >
- >You see, Christianity has wiped out not just individuals, but entire cultures.
- >
- >>This century has tried several experiments in explicitly anti-religious
- >>statecraft
- >
- >Hmmm. Here once again we see the collossal ignorance and arrogance of a
- >typical Christian: I don't suppose it's ever occurred to you that
- >non-Christian does *NOT* mean anti-religious?
-
- Since anti-religious implies anti-Christian (Christianity implies
- religion), then I don't think he was ever making the statement you
- accuse him of. He just gave an example of an anti-Christian (by
- implication) state. Such a state would also be anti-Jewish,
- anti-Moslem, etc. If your assumption that Christianity is the
- root of all human injustice in society today is true, then such a
- anti-Christian society should have been a startling success. The
- fact that it wasn't shows that your assumption is false.
-
- >Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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