Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Proctor & Gamble (is this true?) Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 06:13:59 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 34 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) writes: +An American preacher has been recently touring the area where I live +in England and has been making various allegations about the company I have often wondered why Christians do not approve of pornography and yet produce some of the most violent rumors. The last rumor bing centering on P&G used such evidence as the century old logo using stars and moon as part of the motif. The 'satanist' thing seems to be a wonderful way to whip up flaging hysteria when such ploys as 'rapture' or 'armagedon' or 'evil communist empire' fail. Whereas the 'rapture' didn't happen, 'armagedon' was avoided, 'communism' has fallen, 'Satanism' can be anywhere you look. You can see 'cult' crime in your own neighborhood, school, or church. It of course can't be 'proven' directly because th cultist are to clever and led by ultimate evil. So it can be used over and over. It is clear to me that some Christians use the satanist tack to allow themselves a vicarious look into the sex, drugs and rock-and-roll that they normally deny themselves. It is one thing to condemn behavior, it is another thing to luridly describe the goings on in the 'cult' groups. This of course is under the title of 'education', i.e. how can we tell the 'cultist' in the population at large. Of course even if there were a 'large spread' Satanist cult, does the Bible command that the Christian use force to prevent the cult activities? Only to those same Christians who believe the Bible tells them to set up a kingdom on earth? -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu