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From: carnes@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: On the news
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 16:41:10 EST
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In article <> bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas ) writes:
> BUT...  I wasn't the ONLY person who saw
>that witch spewing forth her hellish pronouncements!  The whole television
>audience of that newscast saw it!  Many people who sort of thought they could
>just close their eyes and it would go away, rather like we non-Catholics did
>before Roe vs. Wade.  Now they can see the real character of the ideologues
>who are behind the pro-abortion movement... the same ones who said a few years
>ago that they would be continuing to exploit the doubt about whether a fetus
>was a person until the general public got used to the idea(quote furnished
>upon request).  We can see now that their leader and progenitor has once again
>made a fatal error in tactics, since he has now been hounded for many years
>by ever-increasing legions of believers who are getting wise to his schemes.
>
>     Don't you people see that he is LOSING?  Why should you?  He doesn't.

The Devil's greatest triumph is to persuade people to do his work for
him in the belief that they are serving God.  This has obviously
happened many times in the past and continues in the present --
witch-hunts, holy wars, the religious fanaticism in Iran, and so on.
The people who persecuted "witches" and burned heretics were just as
convinced as Brian is that they were on God's side and doing his holy
work.  

The Devil is, after all, extremely clever.  He knows that if he
announced himself, "Hello, I'm the Devil," people would just tell him
to get lost.  He has learned to wear religious vestments, sing hymns,
and quote the Bible.  Millions now serve him in the conviction that
they are serving God (they may serve God in part, but they are
unaware that they serve the Devil as well).  The Devil has them
totally outsmarted.

I wonder why people like Brian are so certain they are doing God's
work?  They seem to think that anything with a cross on it, anything
that *claims* to be on God's side, is thereby proved to be on God's
side.  

Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes