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Subject: Re: Humanism, Christianity and Nazism
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 11:19:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 11:19:38 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

It seems to me (they teach you in philosopy classes that you are never wrong
if you include those four words) that you are all missing something in the
argument over the treatment of Jews by a Democracy.  The instant that one set
of people is treated differently (over 60, religious group, racial stock or
whatever sets that group apart) the system is no longer a Democracy.  The
basis of all people being equal is ignored when some are given more or less
rights, and therefore the structure of the government is changed.  In the 
United States the original Constitution was written in such a manner that
a good deal of change would be necessary to accomplish this, and it is still
difficult (though not impossible) to show favoritism.  In the so-called
European Democracies this was not so.  They showed serious faults in the
formation of their governments by not limiting the powers of the governments
they were forming.  (Let us remember that men create governments, not vica
versa, and so we should be able to see that men should control governments
not the other way around!)

To confuse a sloppy system which has the precept of voting on things (dare
I call it a Participatory Democracy--see net.political) with a true democracy
is to confuse Judaism with Christianity--they both use the same old book,
just one has added some new stuff.

	    From the Soapbox of
	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    (Was "Onward Christian Soldiers" Torquemada's theme song?)