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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Christian" Nations
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 12:44:39 EDT
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In article  tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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.  ...

That doesn't mean that GB, or any other country, must grant them a visa,
especially if these persons are under investigation in another Western
country for criminal wrongdoings.  How does GB go about restricting the
distribution of Scientologist meterial?

>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.

As do Thelemites!

>-=-
>Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
>ARPA:	Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K	uucp:	seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim
>CompuServe:	74176,1360	audio:	shout "Hey, Tim!"


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