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From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman)
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Subject: Mike Huybensz's rebuttal to Dan Boscovich
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 08:40:30 EDT
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Mike,
	All I can say is how impressed I am with your bravery in speaking
out about the Damager-God to people like Dan Boscovich. You are absolutely
right, he sounds like a willing sheep slave in a fascist dictatorship who
has been too brainwashed to know the difference between good and evil.
I feel truly sorry for him, but I hope some light can be shed on things
as a result of an open discussion between Dan, myself, you, and others
who have opinions on the nature of this Damager-God and His actions.

	Dan did not provide a very interesting rebuttal to cjc@psuvm.BITNET's
points about how God hardened Pharaoh's heart. He avoids the issue of God's
deliberate malicious interference entirely as if it was inconsequential.
He mentions the ``lesson Job learned in the end,'' but the only lesson
I can see in that book is God saying ``Obey me for I am powerful, and I
can do whatever I want to you whether you obey or not.'' Since Dan assumes
certain things about the nature of God, he learns a different lesson. You
are right, Mike, responsibility for the crimes of the ages rest at the feet
of the Damager-God. But people like Dan will never see fit to rest it
there because they have been so well enslaved by the pig God. I really am
truly sorry for people like him, and I do hope I can help them overcome
their sheepishness toward God and realize what He is really like.  Once
they come to see Him for what He is, I am as sure that they will stop
whorshiping Him as they are sure that once you get into their web of
faith you will accept God and become His slave.

Be well,
-- 
Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories
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