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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: Religion and politics don't mix?
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 13:21:45 EST
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> 		"If you're one of the millions of Americans who fills 
> 		church collection plates, you might want to check if your
> 		denomination and congregation contributes to the World
> 		Council of Churches (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.)
> 			Don Black

Could you please explain why 1) it is the work of an "Antichrist organization"
when racism is combatted?  2) it is a symptom of a world communist conspiracy
when racism is combatted?  I half expect an answer along the Arndtian terms
of "If you don't knwo, you're blind and stupid", but I'd like to see som
substantiation for this.
-- 
"It's a lot like life..."			 Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr