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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Seein' Red and God?
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 19:40:06 EST
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> [David Olson]
> >> "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
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> >[Sevener, I think]
> >Interesting.   I thought the usual religious belief was either
> >everyone was under God or nobody was. 
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> [Sam Cramer]
> 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.
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A question for Sam Cramer:
	In which category is Iran?

Personally, ideologies in EITHER category scare the hell out of me.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan