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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: In the Name of God
Message-ID: <356@gargoyle.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 12:01:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 12:01:06 1986
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Reply-To: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Organization: U. of Chicago, Computer Science Dept.
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Summary: 

Guy Ferraiolo writes:

>Where were these people when the Tibetan, Cambodians,
>Ukranians, etc., etc., etc., were being slaughtered?  

Since the American religious groups protesting US policy in Central
America are acting on the assumption that the US is a democratic
society in which it is possible to influence government policy by
popular pressure and appeals to morality, it follows that Mr.
Ferraiolo believes that the governments of the Soviet Union and China
and the Khmer Rouge are likewise democratic and responsive to
popular pressure and moral appeals even from religious groups in the
US, to say nothing of their own citizens.  So I think Mr. Ferraiolo
deserves a Hero of Labor medal for arguing that communist countries
are democratic and responsive to human rights appeals.

>Frankly, it doesn't matter to me how self-righteous people are, what
>kind of religious positions they hold, or how hypocritical their
>rhetoric is.

Comments like this indicate the futility of discussion with a
close-minded person, whose mind is already made up and who knows the
answers already.  I guess anyone who disagrees with Mr. Ferraiolo is
self-evidently hypocritical.

Net.politics.dogma is too much a forum for confident assertions by
people who believe that their thought processes are infallible, and
too little a forum for reasoned discussion by those who know that the
truth is usually elusive.  But I suppose this is inherent in the
nature of a computer network.
-- 
Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes