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From: hsf@hlexa.UUCP (Henry Friedman)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: flame bashers "know not what they do"
Message-ID: <4715@hlexa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 16:38:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 16:38:56 1985
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Seems it's fashionable on the net lately to trash
net.flame as worthless garbage.  Even defenders can only
muster a patronizing: "We need it to keep the garbage from
polluting the rest of the net."

But did you ever think what J.C. would do in lieu of overturning
money-changers' tables if he were to return. Would he camp out
on the steps of the Pentagon or the Kremlin?  Would he
take out a full page ad in the New York Times or the Wall Street
Journal?  No, what he'd do is log onto USENET and post a
flame; that's what he'd do.

Something like:

How dare you idiots waste lives and resources fighting and
killing one another

  WHEN CHILDREN ARE STARVING

  WHEN YOUR BROTHERS LIE FREEZING AND NAKED IN YOUR STREETS

  WHEN YOU ARE STILL DYING HORRIBLE DEATHS FROM ALL KINDS OF
   HORRIBLE DISEASES that you haven't yet figured out how to cure.

And how dare you idiots kill one another IN MY FATHER'S NAME,
 taking HIS NAME IN VAIN!!

-----
Now you'll ask, does this guy think that HE's Jesus----naah,
I'm not well adjusted enough--besides, I don't even believe
in souls. But then again, those GUYS up in the sky can't do
anything unless one of us does it for them.

--Henry Friedman