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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Common Ground
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 18:36:12 EDT
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We have seen Christianity without Jesus.  It is called 19th century
imperialism.  White man's burden (saving a non-European from his barbaric
culture by turning him into a modern European) does not differ in concept
or in effect from pre-19th Christian expansionism (saving the infidel from
his false religion by turning him into a genuflecting Christian).

Both ideas are expressions of xenophobic hatred of other peoples' cultures
and religions.

I am not denying that the non-Europeans often were or are howling
savages (e.g. Iran) but Europeans have shown equal barbarism with more
technological competence in the 20th century.

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                    Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo

         	 (An Equal Opportunity Offender)