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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: holocaust
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 08:47:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  6 08:47:17 1985
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> > In fact, Black is a wolf who attepts to warp people through nothing but
> > simple questioning of history. If you listen to him for long enough,
> > you too can become like that child. If a man has no anchor to rely upon,
> > he will be bent into the shape that others would have him become.
> > Some people make an anchor of reasoning. Some make an anchor of money.
> > My anchor, my rock, and in the end, my salvation is Christ.
> 
> I like this point about having an anchor.  It's a nice analogy.  I think
> reason makes the better anchorage.  People whose beliefs are anchored to
> gods frequently drift into heavy seas like Black's.  I'm not sure that the
> choice of reason is better, but I'm giving it a try.

"Nothing but simple questioning of history"?  I wish more people would
question it!

Mr. Black probably has _no_ direct evidence of whether the Nazis killed
all those Jews, since it happened so long ago.  He must therefore rely
on second-hand accounts, or more likely third-hand.  Spiritually, his
only mistake lies in accepting the accounts of hateful men.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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