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From: cramer@sun.uucp (Sam Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Seein' Red and God?
Message-ID: <3119@sun.uucp>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 14:05:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 14:05:27 1986
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In article <463@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>> 
>> "The enemy is the communist system itself - implacable, insatiable,
>> unceasing in its drive for world domination.  This ... is a struggle
>> for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God
>> vs. ruthless godless tyranny." -- John F. Kennedy
>> 
>> David Olson
> 
>Interesting.   I thought the usual religious belief was either
>everyone was under God or nobody was. 

What was meant is clear. 

The choice is between ideologies that recognize that there are moral
(God-inspired) limits to the power of the state, and ideologies which 
recognize no higher authority than the state and act accordingly.
Communism is the example *par excellence* of the latter.

Sam Cramer 	sun!cramer