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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Christians and Morality
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Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 09:39:57 EDT
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> A friend of mine once said, "The extreme Christian position is that we 
> should lay down our weapons with the full expectation of being nuked
> out of existence."
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure that this really works.  In this day and age
> I think I have to consider the effects on my non-christian neighbors.  It's
> the same problem as with fighting the Nazis in WW II; you either adhere to
> your holy pacifism, or you allow all those jews to be killed.
> 
> I agree that simply building a bigger stockpile is has obvious problems.
> I think that unilateral disarmament is reckless.  Between the two extremes,
> I see no clear path.  THe best idea I've come up with is to have the
> weapons, and never use them, not even in the face of a massive attack.
> This too has obvious problems, technical and moral.
> 
> I suspect there is no satisfactory solution.

Or, as one person (I forget who) pointed out, it is not that Christianity
has not been tried, but that it has been tried and found difficult.
-- 
"Biblical signoffs are for the smug."

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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