Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site we53.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!bmt
From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas )
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Creationists are not stupid
Message-ID: <261@we53.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 13:39:58 EST
Article-I.D.: we53.261
Posted: Wed Oct 31 13:39:58 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 05:02:53 EST
References: <222@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Technologies - St. Louis Missouri
Lines: 27

>    This leads to the larger question of the causes of the resurgence of
> creationism in the United States, a question that has no simple answer.  I
> believe it has a great deal to do with the need of an economically and
> politically oppressed sector of American society to defend its autonomy and
> integrity by asserting control over the education of its children and over
> its way of life in general.  This is only the beginning of a long discussion,
> one which I would very much like to see taking place in net.origins.  
 
What it has to do with is a worldwide revival of Christian faith.
It isn't evident in this country as much as in others, particularly
the developing nations, but there has in recent years been an
unprecedented growth in the Christian church, along with increasing
unity.  More and more signs of the working of spiritual powers are
being seen, both good and evil.  I myself am part of this, having
been a radical leftist for several years, and found the whole thing
lacking, I and many of my friends became Christians.  We also began
to rethink our politics, obviously, in the light of the Word of God.
I was not, am not, economically and politically oppressed, rather, I
have seen the way in which philosophies such as I formerly espoused
have led to the alarming state of the world, instead of contributing
to a solution for it.  I, too, would enjoy discussing it, however, I'm
not sure that net.origins is the place for it.  I would enjoy mail on
the subject.

from over the rainbow of

	we53!bmt(Brian M. Thomas @ AT&T Technologies, St. Louis, MO)