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From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.religion
Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion subgroups
Message-ID: <1639@ucf-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 09:35:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 09:35:52 1984
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In addition to mailing my response, I feel a response is in order
regarding the notion of net.religion.christian being redundant
vis-a-vis a christian mailing list. 

A christian mailing list is, in comparison with a net forum open
at least to public ears and monitoring (if not to their keyboards),
a rather secretive alternative. Such a secretive alternative as a
SUBSTITUTE FOR a public forum strikes me as something out of
pre-WWII Germany and makes me, as a Jew, very nervous. There are
many christian mailing lists, jewish mailing lists, etc. and that
is to be expected.... but why is a christian mailing list suggested
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO a forum open to public monitoring? Is this to
be a network where KKK and neo-nazis can spew their obscenities
without fear of being 'found out'? Well, I don't think so... but,
on the other hand, we see from such things as the Donahue shows 
that this is not an unreasonable fear. 

It also strikes me as contradictory that christians are fighting
against having a forum of their own... that they PREFER to try
their best to IMPOSE their unjustified presumptions on others
and that 'discussion' is simply a ruse to give them an excuse
to do it. If this were not so, they could do it far more effec-
tively on their own net.

Why is it that I suspected from the outset that christians would
oppose their own net? Because the notion of IMPOSING their ideas
on others is an integral part of their religion. As a Jew, I am
aware of the consequences of this integral element of their
religion. It has not gone away and is not, even now, very far
from us.

Evil prefers the cloak of darkness and secrecy. Uprightness prefers
the light.