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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Alan vs. the One True Way
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 13:46:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 13:46:48 1984
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>One writer (I forget who) has commented that "In practice, neither [Hinduism
>nor Buddhism] pays the slightest attention to what goes on in the world today."
>Another writer named Doug Dickey commented that, especially in the 1960's, many
>people who were sincerely concerned about social injustice and world problems
>turned Eastward for help, but came to believe that the world was an illusion --
>and thus turned away from the battle for social justice et al. altogether.
>Is the, not only physical, but emotional suffering of a starving person only
>an illusion?  [Jeff Sargent]

And Christianity is different???  Open your eyes, Jeff...

Christian morality is 2,000 years behind the times, rigid, dogmatic, and
oblivious to "what goes on in the world today."

Do you want to talk about the suffering of a starving person?  Then look
at the Christian position on birth control, abortion, and sex education.
Is it helping or hurting people?  Do you see any compassion in it?  Maybe
you consider it compassionate to bring more hungry mouths into a starving
world.  I consider it criminal.

Tell me about social justice and world problems.

-- 

	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories