From: kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Casket Distributors)
Subject: Re: Al Gore's religious beliefs
Organization: Rowan College of New Jersey (was GSC)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:18:30 GMT


Mark Gilstrap quotes Texe Marrs, who wrote about Senator Al Gore:

> Gore is a pal of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist who claims to be a
> reincarnated god on earth.

Uh-oh!  I used to live next door to a Buddhist, and I actually talked to
him once or twice!  I suppose the only proper thing to do when one meets a
Buddhist is to burn him at the stake -- after all, that is the historically
correct Christian action, according to Tradition.  (Though I suppose somebody
named "Texe" prefers shootin', as a modern variant.)


On Sen Gore's book:

> The Senator especially has harsh words to say about fundamentalists and
> other christians who believe wholly in the Bible.  According to Al Gore, by
> refusing to accept that the earth is our sacred mother, these christians
> have become a dangerous threat to the survival of humanity. They are blights
> on the environment.  To believe in Bible prophecy is unforgivable, says Gore.

Interesting how Mr Marrs reads this.  How many of us remember when James Watt
said that we shouldn't bother trying to conserve our environment, since Jesus
was coming back soon and he'd fix whatever damage we did?

Mr Watt's belief in Bible prophecy is fine with me; I share that belief.  But
what he intended to do -- allowing the pollution of God's Earth which we were
SUPPOSED to take care of -- made me ill.  Never mind all the people who would
suffer before Jesus did return.  And Mr Watt wasn't worried that, if he were
wrong, people could be cleaning up after him for hundreds of years.  What kind
of testimony would that be?  Is this Mr Marrs's idea of what Senator Gore
should be supporting?  (Rhetorical questions; I do not expect any of you to
know.)


Mr Marrs apparently goes on to expose:

> George Bush's membership in the occultic Skull & Bones Society, 
>
> The Builderberger's secret conferences (from whence came two southern
> democratic governor presidental nominees - Carter and Clinton),

Oh, and let's not forget that Mrs Quayle gave birth to Elvis's love
child after she was abducted to a UFO to meet Marilyn Monroe!

 --

Thanks to Mr Gilstrap for posting this; it's nice to keep in touch with what
the loonies are up to.  Hmm: I get psychotic religious junk mail from time to
time, as I suppose most of us do.  Anybody for a contest to determine the most
whacked-out collection of silliness sent in a single envelope?

Does anybody know exactly who Texe Marrs is?  What planet he hails from?  How
many voters are likely to take him seriously?

(That's the part that scares me: many people seem to make decisions without
 any serious consideration or hard thinking first.  A honest-looking face,
 nice rhetoric, one-half of a story, and they are convinced.  After that, no
 amount of evidence, argument, or refutation matters.  Spooky.)


Darren F Provine / kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu
"Idiot, n.  A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
 affairs has always been dominant and controlling.  The Idiot's activity is
 not confined to any special field of thought or action, but `pervades and
 regulates the whole.'  He has the last word in everything; his decision is
 unappealable.  He sets the fashions of opinion and taste, dictates the
 limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line."
                                  -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
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