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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Shoving one's beliefs down others' throats
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 04:31:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 04:31:20 1984
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>>[commenting on Larry Bickford]
>>...
>>holy mission to ram his beliefs down your (our) throats.
>----------
>I have heard this complaint many, many, many times.  "All Christians (at
>least all those who evangelize a lot, particularly in a public place)
>are doing nothing more than expressing their desire to cram their own
>private, personal belief system down others' throats."...

From here, Kleinpastes article goes on at considerable length to count
articles, total lines, etc. and divide them between Christian and
non-Christian.  Then he concludes, on the basis of his counting ONLY that
either side seems to be forcing beliefs as much as the other.

Gee, I can see how to spend a lot less time going through net.religion.  I
don't have to read the articles any more; I'll just count them!  What sort
of foolishness is this?  I was talking (>> above) about ONE PARTICULAR
PERSON and his habit of frequently posting moderately abusive items.  I
cited a specific case to illustrate my point.

Length of postings or number of postings has no necessary effect on the
type of views expressed in them.  Isn't that obvious?  I guess not.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Cerebus for dictator!