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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.religion
Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion subgroups
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 18:40:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 18:40:04 1984
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In article <1619@ucf-cs.UUCP> yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) writes:
>I've been waiting several weeks for the right opportunity to make
>this suggestion, but Evelyn has beaten me to the punch. I think 
>it would also help to satisfy Steve Aldrich in his plea for
>tolerance.
>
>Net.religion is a general term where no religion should start
>with the basis that they are right and it's up to everyone else
>to PROVE differently. Yet, this is the attitude I see from
>Christians on net.religion.

Frankly, the sound of such words from Yiri makes me gag, seeing the manner in
which he argues against Christianity.

During the period in which I followed net.religion.jewish, I found that the
discussion was almost without exception predicated on belief in Judaism; I
can only recall a single instance where the validity of Judaism was in
question.  If a net.religion.christian is established, are we to expect the
same?  In that case, I think the effort will have been wasted; the fierce
battle over the validity of christianity (which all anyone ever seems to want
to talk about) will still be in net.religion.

I suspect that the reason christianity is such a hot topic (in both senses)
is that a) certain branches stress prosyletizing (sp?), and b) it's the only
religion the atheists know much about historically.  Until we have lots of
Taoists or Buddhists on the net, I don't expect to see much activity that
doesn't somehow involve christianity.

Charley Wingate