Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!christian From: agt@sun.com (Alan Troup) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: A Scary thought, but I bet I get flamed anyway...! Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 89 06:20:36 GMT Sender: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu If at first you think that this belongs on talk.abortion, read on... So, I just heard about the Webster decision. I was pretty surprised, but I guess I shouldn't have been. I, like the news commentator on TV, attributed religious intervention as one of the main reasons for the decision. Certainly, religious groups are gaining more and more power these days... But that's not the scary thought I was referring to in the subject. It's so tough to call oneself a "Christian" these days. So many religous groups and "religious" people do so many stupid things. (Oral Roberts, Jim Bakkar, Jimmy Swaggart, etc..) And now (cough) "pro-lifers". Religion plays such an important part in our lives, no matter what religion we are (or even if we're atheists). I think that the Bible is too important to be used as a tool so that certain people (or groups of people) can get what they want. Which is what is happening, which leads us to the scary thought. With all this nonsense going on in the name of "Christianity", pretty soon the flow of the tide will reverse, and "anti-Christianity" will be the theme of the Age. I don't look forward to living in those times. But if you think about it, it's already starting.