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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Black replies
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 16:44:42 EST
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>     Laura, would you mind naming a few of these campuses and the names of
>the groups that are preaching this?  I know about a group out in Idaho
>(the Aryan Nations) that are a little far out, but I'd be curious to find
>out what these other groups have to say.

I am a little worried about telling you this. If the Aryan Nations are only
``a little far out'', according to you, then I don't think that you know
how to investigate what people say they are doing -- but the Campus
Crusade for Christ is full of such preachers, as are some Jews for
Jesus (I hear they are divided about this, and a lot of other things)
and  Maranatha are another group. The latter seem to be better
organised than the otehr two -- at least there seems to be less politicking.
But this may be a local phenomenon. I have found some of these at the
University of Toronto, University of Guelph, University of Western
Ontario, University of Waterloo and Carlton University in Ottawa,
at Berkeley, at UC Davis and at UC in San Diego, the University of
British Columbia, MIT and I know I have forgotten a few others. I
am told that they are at Duke and at UNC in Chapel Hill, but I haven't
gone looking for them there.

It is interesting that you say that Falwell is pro-Jewish. We don't
get that much of Falwell here, but I distinctly recall that he once (4
years ago??) made a public remark that God didn't listen to the prayers
of a Jew. This made the papers here. Has he changed his mind? Supporting
the Jews in their struggles against the Russian Communist backed Arabs
may say nothing about pro-Jewish sentiment -- just anti-communist ones.
Now, if I were a fundamentalist and believed that an armed Israel
signified the beginning of the end of the world, I would be doing my
best to see Israel unarmed. Then again, every time I have heard
Falwell I have concluded that he is hopefully looking forward to the
end of the world, so maybe that makes a strange sort of sense. But I
haven't watched Falwell enough to know whether he is consistent in
wanting the end of the world -- perhaps I caught him in a bad month.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura