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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Wednesday, 30 Dec 1992 17:17:19 CST
- From: <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92365.171719U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up? Was: What did Judas be
- References: <1992Dec24.172824.12799@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- <1992Dec27.235003.4413@rosevax.rosemount.com>
- <eharbin.725547983@convex.convex.com> <GERRY.92Dec28140440@onion.cmu.edu>
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- In article <eharbin.725572135@convex.convex.com>, eharbin@convex.com (Edward
- Harbin) says:
- >
- >> On the other hand, in what non-Christian country would you choose to live?
- >
- >>In the US of A, you moron! The USA is NOT a christian nation,
- >>regardless of what scum like Pat Robertson, Ronald Reagan, etc., like
- >>to claim.
- >
- >In fact, it's a Christian society with no established religion.
-
- Define how a "Christian" society can have no established religion. Does this
- little statement of yours somehow jibe with the (tacit) correlary that 16th-
- century Theocracies (such as Calvin's Geneva) were "Christian societies with
- no established religions"?
-
- >I don't want
- >an established religion any more than you do, but I do want a Christian
- >country and I observe most of my countrymen are Christian - a state of affairs
- >I approve.
-
- The above paragraph is a highly contradictory one,to say the least. On the one
- hand,you assert that you want no established religion to become the norm,and
- then you assert that a religion _has_ been established (by majority consensus
- if not by law) and glowingly approve of the phenomenon.
-
- >Even us morons may express a preference - or is that too much
- >liberty for your taste?
-
- Us non-morons who can reason more effectively than you really couldn't care
- less,actually. Your "liberty" seems to be quite synonymous with empty rhetoric.
-
- ** Chris Krolczyk,esq. * DISCLAIMER: My opinions are in **
- ** Maniac-at-Large * no way endorsed by the Univer- **
- ** U19807@UICVM.BITNET * sity of Illinois at Chicago. **
- ** u19807@uicvm.uic.edu * So much for frivolous lawsuits.**
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