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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A short essay on tolerance
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 22:12:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 22:12:31 1985
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In article <20405@lanl.ARPA> wkp@lanl.ARPA writes:

>Charley Wingate, that great lover of the Jewish people,
>has returned to his old ways by quoting an article which
>decries the right of people to resist proselytizing by
>peaceful means.

>O.K., Charley.  Let me give you one event which I did witness.
>In August, 1981 I saw your Narkis St. friends distribute small
>children's books in a Jerusalem park during a peace demonstration.
>The title of the book was "Great Jewish Prophets."  At the
>end of the book was a picture and description of the "greatest
>Jewish prophet" You-Know-Who (situated on a cross).  Also was      
>detailed a promise of how You-Know-Who will return to Earth
>again, bringing peace to all mankind.

So What?  What is so evil about that?

>Do we always have to bear the brunt of these child-molesters, Charley?
>Can't these guys just leave well enough alone?

Oh, puleeze....  Does that really justify fire-bombing a church?  As 
another respondent (whose name escapes me) has pointed out, the article
testifies to a certain lack of consideration on both sides.  The Baptist
congregation, I submit, should be seriously considering relocating to a
different site, out of consideration for Hassidic customs.  At the same
time, I think their Jewish opponents might actually consider civilized
nogotiations with the church, instead of attempting to drive them out as
if they were a plague of rats.

Oh, yeah, the snide comments about my being a "great lover of the jewish
people": lighten up on the polemics, will you?  Why is it that it is
perfectly acceptable to complain about "christian" (the quotes indicating
that the people in question often have the most dubious claims to religion)
intolerance of Jews, while at the same time, the intolerance of certain
Jewish groups is a forbidden subject?

Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe

"It's always winter--" "And never Christmas!"