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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: If the shoe fits...
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 17:02:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 17:02:12 1985
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A quote from barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Mon Mar 25 15:06:18 1985:

> 	A number of people have asked why Christians on the net have
> been unwilling to criticize Don Black for the nonsense he's been posting.
> I think the reason is obvious: the Christians are obeying the Eleventh
> Commandment - "Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Christians when
> non-believers are present". Christians are not the only group which follow
> such a solidarity rule, and the rest of us should not be too quick to
> assume that silence implies tacit agreement.

Sorry, Kenn, that just ain't true.  Christianity has always (and I mean from
early Roman days to the present) been known for the violence of its
infighting.  For present-day examples, look at them flame the Mormons and
Jehovah's Witnesses, or listen to the multitudes of Protestants who will
openly announce to one and all that Catholics aren't real Christians.  The
facts are practically the opposite of what you claim, and that is what makes
the silence of most Christians on this issue suspicious.  If they felt that
there was some important doctrinal disagreement, they'd be all over the
theocrats, as they usually are with "heretics".  As it is, it seems that
they feel the differences are so small that they are not worth arguing
about, if there are any differences.

Of course, we must give proper credit to those Christians like Charley
Wingate who ARE taking cretins like Black to task.  Well done, Charley.
(Sorry, Byron, you don't count. :-> )
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