Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: School Prayer Amendment - reply to ?? Message-ID: <1392@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 22:13:03 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1392 Posted: Mon Oct 1 22:13:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:42:16 EDT References: <994@akgua.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 56 > Mr. BenDavid writes > >> > >>Christianity from time to time has the doctrine of forced con- > >>version (Spanish Inquisition, Crusades, Naziism, etc.). Shouldn't > >>they too be allowed to "do their thing" in schools under that > >>same principle? Just because it is a doctrine of some religion > >>to pray vocally has no relevance to their right to PRACTICE > >>their religion IN SCHOOL! The whole argument of the constitution > >>relates to the right to practice one's religion in freedom APART > >>FROM PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS and/or governmental ENDORSEMENT. > >> > >> > Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb} > Christianity must accept "blame" for the Inquisition > and the Crusades but the Nazis were not officially > Christians (they were more into Nature Worship) > although they did put out propaganda that said things > like "God sent Hitler to restore Germany to its > rightfull place....etc etc" and "The 1000 year > Reich will usher in the Millenium..." > Remember Nazi dogma said that Jews were subhuman > and it is a tad illogical to want to convert > what you consider subhumans into your elite Aryan > group, isn't it ? (if we assume Nazism is Christian ) [Place trinitrotoluene v-e-r-y carefully...] Pardon me for exploding a few myths, but Hitler found the basis for his actions in a rather well-referenced (but little-read) book - THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES "Build a better race of people! Select those who are better and get rid of the rest!" Nazism was evolution in living color - and living horror. The evolutionary philosophy doesn't stop there. The "Bulldog of Darwin," Thomas Henry Huxley, viewed blacks as unhuman and unfit to survive, and was fully prepared to accomplish natural selection - with him being the natural selector (naturally :-). Karl Marx wanted to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin (Darwin declined). After his study of Marx, Lenin also took a very big interest in Darwin, and therein found full justification for his revolution and later slaughters. Then there was this Mussolini guy, who also found his support in Darwin... For further study, I recommend _Evolution and Christian Faith_, an excellent work by zoologist Bolton Davidheiser (PhD, Johns Hopkins, specializing in Genetics) but little-known, even among creationists. But then, "Nobody expects Auschwitz!" -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.