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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Undercurrents in Christianity
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 17:42:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 17:42:01 1984
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> There were four advertising consultants on the panel, one of 
> whom was Jewish. At one point towards the end of the program,
> he stated that he is very uncomfortable with a president who
> says "This is a Christian nation." A woman in the audience
> replied that he had better understand "it IS a Christian
> nation", and he had better accept that fact! Needless to say,
> the audience began buzzing.
> 
> But the situation worsened when she continued (in a somewhat
> lowered voice) "We have to do something TO them".
> 
> She answered, "We have to make THEM Christian."
> 
> My reaction was utter horror to be compounded by the next
> person who told the Jewish panelist that he was lucky this
> is a Christian nation because otherwise another Hitler
> could come in and kill "6 million more of you".'
> 
Yep, the attitude of some "Christians" is pretty bad.  Look at the results
of Helm's race in North Carolina where Helms blatantly appealed to such
sentiments and won.  But if Jews think they have problems what about
atheists and agnostics?????
Isn't one of the "worst" things about Communism it's "godless atheism"?
Or so we are told by "Christians". And the ideas for some "universal prayer"
in schools never seem to question that it is not necessarily true that
everybody believes in some sort of god.
  "Religion is the opiate of the masses"
  "...and a foil for the rich and powerful to impose their will."
tim sevener whuxl!orb