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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Wingate on different kinds of evil
Message-ID: <299@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 19:00:28 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.299
Posted: Fri Feb  1 19:00:28 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Feb-85 04:46:26 EST
References: <2204@nsc.UUCP> <385@pyuxd.UUCP> <2697@umcp-cs.UUCP> <409@pyuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <409@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen?) writes:
>
>Sorry, Charlie, the "referenced article" said nothing of the sort.
>What it did say was that the evils of non-religious despotism have little to
>do with other non-religious movements/ideals.  It's erroneous (and
>manipulative) to try to simply lump to the two groups together just because
>they are BOTH *not* religion (esp. Christianity).

	But the evils of such systems *do* have much to do with the
movements/ideals which generated them.  The atrocities of Nazi Germany
followed *directly* from the tenets of Naziism, and so forth.  How
is this any different than what you are claiming for religion?
It is a *human* failing to try and force one's own ideas down other's
throats.
>
>However, the evils of religion (esp. Christianity) ARE in fact closely tied
>with the tenets of the religion itself:  the element of superiority, of
>required gospel-spreading to "heathens", of imposing morality on other people.
>			Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr

	In view of what I said above, this sounds like an erroneous (and
manipulative) point of view, lumping together different groups with
different points of view just because they share the label 'Christian'.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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