From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (General Agreement)
Subject: Re: A nation chosen by GOD -- New-Israel
Summary: No, "arky" doesn't especially point to Arkansas....
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:52:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.153759.5621@seachg.uucp>, 
chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask) writes...

>>>And my opinion is that GOD doesn't care about non-entities, such as 
>>>governments, education, churches, fads, and the like... only individual
>>>people, each directly and individually. 
>>>
>>>>Lets see.  The United States and God.  Did your god support slavery and
>>>>then change his mind ( and very slowly, from the Civil War up to Martin
>>>>Luther King and Malcom X, over almost 100 years! )? 
>>>
>>>Slavery is another non-entity. Why would GOD care?
>>>
>>>>Does your god support Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador?
>>>
>>>more n-e's
>>>
>>
>>Hmm.  A god who doesn't care about "moral" infractions.  Or perhaps your
>>god thinks enslaving people and killing people is an okay thing to do for
>>these individuals He/She/It is concerned with?
>>
> 
>Religion, the sack-over-the-head of the masses.
> 
>-chris blask

Exactly cb. Just like church, government, ideology, or any other 
system humanly contrived. All non-entities, mostly impersonal,
and simply human "arkys" (cf. hier-archy).

To borrow Vernard Eller's points about the characteristics of those 
who love GOD, (rather than arkys)...

	o  No hint of wanting to legitimize any of the
	   powers that be. Those all exist by God's
	   sufferance; none can boast his blessing.

	o  Won't show any inclination to fight the arkys
	   (even those perceived to be the most wicked)
	   nor to compete with them (whether physically
	   or verbally). There is no felt need to be
	   knocking heads with them to get power over
	   them. It is not in any such contest that the
	   future of the race is being decided.

	o  Won't show any interest in making something 
	   of themselves in the eyes of the world --
	   getting power consolidated, or finding 
	   organizational structures which will make
	   them most effective and influential. They
	   are content to be quite weak, and as Eller
	   says anarchistic.

	o  Make no big claims (or even small promises)
	   about what is intended in the way of governing,
	   saving, correcting, or even improving a lost
	   and wrong world. Nor make the sounds of a candi-
	   date for office. 

	o  And most of all, show complete confidence that
	   God can and will accomplish whatever he has in 
	   mind for his world, with or without our help.
	   At his pleasure, God can use either arkys or
	   anarchys, arkyists or anarchists. But he needs
	   needs neither and, most definitely, licenses
	   none. 

	   (see _Christian Anarchy_ p. 43.)

And needing no church or religion, how about a little spontaneous
prophecy recounting Isaiah 19:23-25...

	In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt
	to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt,
	and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians
	shall serve with the Assyrians.

	In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt
	and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of
	the land:

	Who the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
	be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands,
	and Israel mine inheritance.
	 
You reckon even the Globalist arky can do this? Anyone for peace
talks??

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-- J --
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   |  Stephen   "an anarchist christian"
	    	   
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