Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!reed!houts From: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Faux pas; Identity Message-ID: <1042@reed.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 20:58:10 EST Article-I.D.: reed.1042 Posted: Sun Mar 3 20:58:10 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:52:37 EST References: <715@decwrl.UUCP> <1039@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: houts@reed.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 71 Summary: Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Religion and politics don't mix? Summary: Expires: Sender: Reply-To: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts) Followup-To: Distribution: net Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Keywords: oink In article <821@decwrl.UUCP> black@nisysg.DEC writes: > (WCC). "...According to the Catholic > Defense League of South Africa, the WCC through its > Program to Combat Racism gave nearly $200,000 to anti- > South-African terrorist groups, including over $75,000 > to the Southwest African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO)." > > ("Soldier of Fortune," April 1985, p. 102; Omega Group Ltd., > Boulder, CO) > > I don't understand why a supposedly Christian organization is > giving support to an Antichrist organization. There's an old axiom > that says anything that walks lie a duck, talks like a duck, lays > ducks' eggs, and hangs around with other ducks, must probably be > some kind of a duck. If this news item has any veracity, then it > would appear that the WCC is not in fact an ecclesiastic organization, > but rather a front for the collection of funds to support the > international Communist conspiracy. (Note to US readers: the US > affiliate of the WCC is the National Council of Churches.) > > Have a good weekend. > > Don Black > > The native people of South Africa, Mr. Black, are in need of any help available to them. They live under a system of apartheid. Apartheid, Mr. Black, is legalized ethnic separation; it is institutionalized racism. Under this system, non-whites existing in South Africa are denied those basic rights which are supposedly accorded by God to all human people. I don't think I need ennumerate them all; they are those privileges about which citizens of "democratic" countries are most given to bleat. You know which ones I mean: rights of free speech, assembly, representation, and the like. South Africans are forced by laws (lawmakers) foreign to them to do without these things, and they are faced daily with a myriad of petty indignities. The segregation of busses, drinking fountains, and eating establishments are enforced with horrifying brutality. Visitors (and exiles) from South Africa speak of diseased children and inferior hospitals, long hours and fractional wages, prisons, police, and slave labor camps. Non-white South Africans, Mr. Black, find it difficult to "have a good weekend". To fight terror is a noble thing, and the fund driven by the WCC to support a group of such horribly wronged people is certainly vindicated, and may even be considered a 'Christian duty'. It will probably do little good to inform you that the policy of apartheid is actively supported by such 'bastions of democracy' as the Ford Motor Company, Coca Cola, and U.S. Steel, who find the oppressed blacks to be marvelously cheap labor. This is at least as vile as any worldwide Communist conspiracy dreamt of by your paranoid (or perhaps just sadly misinformed) mind... -- Bill Houts (a.k.a. Captain Chaos) Cosmic Color Control tektronix!reed!houts "I claim to be the Kleenex reborn."