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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Religion and politics don't mix?
Message-ID: <1446@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 18:20:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 18:20:50 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>>>                                   . . .  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)."
>>>              . . .
>>>           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
>        Racism, even South African style, is not the same as war.  And
>terrorism against individuals is not an acceptable way to bring about
>social change.  Why?  Because it is an act of hate that channels that
>hate into harm against particular individuals.  It is not self defense,
>nor is ip (possibly justifiable) anger against a tormentor.  It is doing
>harm to others for the purpose of doing harm, with the bad excuse that
>somewhere else there is an injustice.
>
>        That is why terror-based organizations and organizations that seek
>power only to expand their own control are anti-Christlike.  I agree that
>                                                Mark Terribile

While I agree with most of Mark's comments in principle, the original
author was talking about SWAPO, which is not, as I understand it, a
terrorist organization.  Rather, it has conducted a more military
campaign against the illegal S. African hold on S.W. Africa.  I don't
know to what degree SWAPO is supported by the USSR, and I don't really
care.  S.Africa holds S.W.Africa contrary to UN resolutions and contrary
to the stated policies of most nations.  Why support of SWAPO should
be equated with either AntiChrist or the international communist
conspiracy is beyond me.

Isn't this the same Don Black who was so confused that he thought
accepting World Court jurisdiction meant US citizens would be subject
to foreign laws?  I don't see why people bother to respond to his
postings; they contain no colour of fact.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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