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From: berosetti@watrose.UUCP (Barry Rosetti)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: FRP games--a work of the devil... :-(
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 09:42:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 09:42:21 1985
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Reply-To: berosetti@watrose.UUCP (Barry Rosetti)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Survival instinct...

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>But, there are some who spice up their games with additional material
>which may be authentic or, for me, too close to the fire for comfort. 
>I was tired of seeing all those "narrow-minded
>atheists" putting us "narrow-minded fundamentalists" down. It was obvious
>that they did not understand God and Satan from the perspective of believers
>in the Old and/or New Testament. 
>I like your attitude,
>but some don't even want to look at another viewpoint, hence, the
>"narrow-minded atheist." I guess I'd better break out my asbestos suit,
>I feel the flames coming.
>                                        
A prophecy is fulfilled (ie. I feel the flames coming..):
 
A lot of things to say: For the most part atheists are not narrow
minded.  Most atheists are not as obtuse as you would like to
believe but are responding to threats of obliteration 
with a survival instinct.  They simply want to use their (God given)
intelligence and imagination with out fear of being burned at the stake.
I am not an atheist but, because I cannot tolerate the totalitarian
suppression of the mind, I am called an atheist by narrow minded 
fundamentalists.  I see this kind of suppression in your statements
such as "And they want it out."-> here there is no room for compromise
or admission of willingness to understand, this is just the kind of 
suppression I (all of us) have to strike out against in order to survive.

By the way, you say you want understanding, well, I understand (all too
well) and I may not agree but that's my perogative.  The viewpoints
I see expressed by the fundamentalists are of the form "They won't 
change, so they don't understand, so they're going to burn in hell,
so we have to save their souls, so lets impose our wills on the
population as a whole".  There is no understanding in this attitude
just a lot of paranoid and a little bit of Nazism and stupidity.
I truly beleive this is their thinking process (from MUCH first hand
experience).

No prophecies.

                         Barry Rosetti
                              {..!watdcsu!watrose!berosetti}
  
PS: Should I turn down the heat???
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