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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha)
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Subject: Re: Wingate on different kinds of evil
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:11:21 EST
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> Nowhere in the Gospels is it stated that we have an obligation to "impose
> morality" on people.  [WINGATE]

Then why are you doing it?  And why do you see justification in doing it?

> The continuance of Jewish repression under the Soviets suggests to me that
> religion was only a minor factor in the pogroms, for instance.

Perhaps because of what someone else said in a previous article:  communism
and religion (in general) cannot co-exist, because they both have the same
goals---complete control of mind and body.  As I've said before, modern
despotism is simply religious autocracy with a brand new cast.  New "priests",
new "parishes", new inquisitors.

> I should also point out that the period in which christianity was most 
> relentlessly rationalistic, the late middle ages, also produced some of the
> worst repression and intolerance, and not just toward non-christians, either.

Then it was hardly "rationalistic", despite your simple assertion that it was.
On what basis do you make such a contradictory assertion?
-- 
Otology recapitulates phonology.
					Rich Rosen    {ihnp4|harpo}!pyuxd!rlr