Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Wingate on different kinds of evil Message-ID: <486@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:11:21 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.486 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:11:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 05:41:35 EST References: <2697@umcp-cs.UUCP> <409@pyuxd.UUCP> <2912@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: The Gang - Other Other Operations Division Lines: 23 > 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