From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Discrimination in Marine Corps Officer Candidate School
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:58:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.185432.16131@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
gerrys@ecs.comm.mot.com (Gerry Saqueton) writes:
>In article <1992Nov21.231112.4921@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>,
>ajh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Hu) writes:
>> In article <lgr7i5INNgvn@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
>>melindac@thedarktower.Corp.Sun.COM (Melinda Cheung) writes:
>>>	underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) :
>> 	[Dwight's standard Chinese-cu-bashing following a wonderfully
>> 	informative post deleted.]
>>>OH CHRIST ON A STICK! You turn a perfectly good informational post
>>>into the same ol' Chinese bashing. 
>>>You are so obsessed.
>>>	Melinda
>> Gosh, I never thought I'd see the day when Melinda publically
>> deified Dwight as the Savior Incarnate!  So, is Dwight, in the
>> persona of Christ-on-a-Stick, Christianity's answer to the
>> Popsicle (tm)?  :-)
>I'm asian american and I empathize with Brian Yamashita on this situation, but
>please, have a little more respect for us Christians on this net.  Don't use 
>my lord's name in vain!

I appreciate Mr. Saqueton's position.

People like Melinda Cheung, who identify with Chinese-cu culture to
a large extent, are apt to belittle Jesus Christ.  I do not refer to
Christ in any context other than that of a human being.  (I do not
wish to voice my opinion on his status as a supernatural entity.)

It doesn't require intelligence to see that her statement smacks
of a personal insult using the name of Jesus of Christ.  To crystalize
things, we could subsitute Mother Theresa for "Christ" in Ms. Cheung's
statement:

                 OH MOTHER THERESA ON A STICK!

Immediately, this appears offensive because most people, regardless of
their religious beliefs, can agree that Mother Theresa was a genuinely
good human being.

Returning to Jesus Christ, His life was one of total love and total
compassion for humanity.  In no historical account of his life, do we
find any reference to hatred.  In fact, Jesus Christ never once condemned
homosexuality.  His philosophy is one of "live and let live".  He does
criticize certain forms of behavior where that behavior infringed on
the rights of another person.  He did condemn stoning, murder, etc.

If Jesus Christ were alive today, I'm sure that he would condemn the
infanticide that occurs daily in Chinese-cu culture as well as the brutal
murder of Henry Liu by Chinese-cu assassins hired by the Chinese-cu gov't
on Taiwan.

Therein likes the reason that people who identify with Chinese-cu culture
are apt to mock Jesus Christ.  The principles in Chinese-cu culture
are diametrically opposed to the priniciples that Jesus Christ promoted.
One cannot simultaneously believe in the principles of Chinese-cu culture
and the principles that Jesus Christ promoted.  A Chinese-cu Christian is
an oxymoron.

Most Orientals-ge who are, in fact, Christian (Western Christians) have
almost nothing Chinese-cu about them.  Sure.  Some might say that they
are Chinese-cu, but they really aren't.

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