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From: gwhawkins@watrose.UUCP (gwhawkins)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: If the shoe fits....
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 14:59:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 14:59:03 1985
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I must say that the author (I just forgot his name) of If the shoe fits
is not ranting.  His statements were written down calmly and rationally.
It just goes to show you what a rational mind can come up with when
exposed to "different" sources of information (The followers of Sun
Myung Moon are another good example of this).

Most of the writers to net.religions have been exposed to very "main stream"
notions of the world.  We feel that our ideas are more right than his
because (for one thing) we feel that more people agree with us.  I don't
necessarily think that this makes us more right than him, but that's not what
I think is the important issue here.

The point I want to make is about the idea that the Aryans (or Americans or
whatever) are G-ds chosen people.  The idea that anyone has been chosen
by G-d (or some other cosmic critter) as better in some spiritual way
than everyone else, is a sad one.  How can you be expected to deal with
someone in an honest manner if you don't concider the other person (creature)
to be as "good" as you are.

The idea of being better than the rest leads to intollerance.  I don't
care what his notions of history are, but he seems to consider himself
(or the Aryans if there is a difference) better than everyone else and
I think (personally) that this is a very very sad understanding of the
world.
		larry fast (Universty of Waterloo)
		broadcasting from exile