Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Reality Message-ID: <388@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 10:10:24 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.388 Posted: Wed Mar 6 10:10:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 20:02:12 EST References: <888@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 41 Summary: In article <888@decwrl.UUCP> black@nisysg.DEC spews pompous drivel like: > And then there are those "Americans" who would want a Communist govern- > ment here in the US. I have an answer for them, but most people get squeamish > at the thought. I fear no man, and when I'm dead and buried, there's more > like me to take my place. What is this crap doing in net.religion instead of net.politics? But there was one paragraph remotely related to religion. > As far as Communism being part of the Antichrist conspiracy, I do believe > the answer to that is painfully obvious. As I have previously stated, there > were over 600 churches in the city of Moscow prior to the Bolshevik revolution. > Today there are less than 60. The American Communist Party was one of the > biggest contributors to the great atheist theologian, Madalyn Murray O'Hare, > during her vendetta to remove prayer from the government schools. (Let me > add a few more interesting statistics about the altruism of the Bolsheviks. > In the first 12 months of the Communist regime, they are known to have > murdered 31 bishops, 1650 priests and ministers, and over 2 million Chistian > lay people. How much more anti-Christ can a group be?) It's people who believe in giant conspiracies who make up the armies of Ayatollahs and the like. They'll believe any yarn that is remotely plausible and ties in with their preconceptions. I've got some counterconspiracies for you to consider. I consider Christ to be the Anti-Zeus. Before AD, there were hundreds of active temples to the gods in Rome, and now there are none! Hey, and the Russians are the Anti-Mohammed also! There has been a great decrease in mosques in their moslem states, and they murdered lots of them too. Not to mention Afghanistan. It's all too typical that zealots of this sort call their narrow-minded parochialism and conspiracy theories "reality" and chide the rest of us for not having their "clear" (read: blinkered) vision. Yuck. There I've gone and flamed all over net.religion. I'm so ashamed. :-( -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh