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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: In response to Rosen, Bellovin, Maroney, and others
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 14:22:06 EST
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The problem I have with Christianity is that, although I can tell a
lot of orthadox positions from Black's positions, it isn't at all
what I care about. By saying ``Black is unorthadox'' I may have protected
the sacred/holy/revered/whatever name ``Christianity'' from association
with Black's beliefs, but protecting names just isn't all that important
to me. I am much more interested in protecting other people from the
Identity Christians.

What I am sincerely worried about is that the bulk of Christians have
some faith in God's/the Religious Leaders/Somebody Other Than Me 's
ability to keep horrible things from being done by unorthadox Christians
in the name of Christianity. There is a tendancy for all members of any
group X to believe that all members of group X are ``just like me''.
I wonder how many Christians fall under this category?

What I find shocking is this:

Lots of Christians were quick to denounce Mormons as not being Christians --
lots of Christians were quick to denounce homosexuals as not being
Christians as long as they felt that homosexuality was not a sin).
It was clearly believed that to have these certain beliefs associated with
Christianity was vile and odious to many Christians. SO WHERE IS THE EQUAL
AMOUNT OF CONDEMNATION OF IDENTITY CHRISTIANITY BY CHRISTIANS? I am *still*
waiting....

i can't help but think that there are Christians out there who think that
homosexuals and Mormons are very dangerous threats and that the Identity
Christians are not. I know, this belief is very hard to take seriously,
but I cannot account for the silence on this issue at the same time as
Mormons and homosexuals are subject to renunciation by Christians.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura