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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Seein' Red and God?
Message-ID: <2289@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 11:15:17 EST
Article-I.D.: burdvax.2289
Posted: Tue Jan  7 11:15:17 1986
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References: <125@drutx.UUCP> <whuts.463>
Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon
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In article <whuts.463> 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.  Perhaps Durkheim was right:
>God is simply a reflection of society.  If so then a given deity
>can be wished out of existence.  Take Zeus for example.....
>          tim sevener  whuxn!orb
>    "one person over God"

I think Kennedy was reflecting on the acknowledgement of God's place in
the affairs of men on the part of a government, not the objective
reality of his being or omnipresence.

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