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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: "Christian" Nations
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 19:11:15 EDT
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Wingate:
> I'll be the first to concede that the
> English government has in the past been tyrannous about religion.  Burt it
> is hardly so now.  It is the lust for power and domination which drives
> oppression, not the stated excuse.

You'd think differently if you were a Scientologist.  They are routinely
denied visas and their books cannot be distributed.  Don't get me wrong; I
despise Scientologists; there's a lot of bad blood between them and
Thelemites, due to L. Ron stealing large amounts of money and property from
Jack Parsons.  But they still have a right to follow their moronic religion
without impediment.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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