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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A M.P. Courier's Dramatic Story of Soviet Arrest
Message-ID: <686@pyuxn.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 09:54:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 09:54:49 1984
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> >      The USSR doesn't need JESUS anymore than we do. Jesus! What they need
> >  is a freer form of government which would promote better productivity.
> >
> >      "Jesus" still doesn't put the bread on the table. The farmer does!!
> >
> >                      GEORGE

> I find the above of talk very offensive. Those of us who oppose religious 
> coercion, should demonstrate consistency by rejecting vehemently anti-
> religious coercion.

Huh?  Where was the religious coercion?  Where was the offensiveness?
Certainly it was no more offensive than someone saying "The US doesn't need
humanism, what we need is Jesus!!"  Which of course has never been said
in this group, right?
-- 
"An argument is an intellectual process.  It isn't the automatic gainsaying of
	what the other person says."
"... Can be."					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr