From: scruggs@zeus.franklin.edu (Kevin Scruggs)
Subject: Re: I feel threatened by Christianity...
Organization: Franklin University (Columbus, OH)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:17:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.221419.9773@iscsvax.uni.edu> sperry2699@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.214149.22353@netcom.com>, bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>> I just saw part of Pat Robertson's TV show "The 700 Club" for the
>> first time today while I was home on my lunch break, and I'll admit,
>> it frightened me.  I was never really aware of what large Christian
>> organizations are doing these days.
>> 
>> Robertson kept talking about how society is moving farther and farther
>> away from God, and how this nation is falling into such sinful
>> activities as drug use, murder, abortion, homosexuality and sodomy,
>> and materialism as a result.  
>
>Society IS moving further away from God.  Don't you believe drug use or murder
>(for example) are sin?
>
	Drugs and murder were around long before xianity or the current so 
called moral decline...
>> He urged his audience to rally together
>> and fight the anti-Christian oppression.  He spoke highly of the fight
>> to put official prayer back into schools, 
>
>There should be a time set aside for those who wish to pray.  Possibly a break
>from the classroom.  Is it so bad to have 20 min set aside for people to pray?
>
	Students are perfectly capable and permitted to observe their religion
on their own time (at school). They need neither encouragement nor sanction to 
do it from what is a government institution. 
>> and he encouraged the
>> pro-life crowd to keep striving for their goal, 
>
>Why not.  The NOW people are always pushing the pro-abortion side.
>
>> and he even did an
>> interview with one of the lawyers from a Christian legal firm which is
>> working to defend the ability of students to distribute pro-life
>> pamphlets in schools.  
>
>Isn't that a good thing?  Shouldn't people be defending the pro-lifer's rights? 
>Others do a good job of defending the pro-abortion side.
>
>> Throughout the whole time I watched him,
>> Robertson kept talking about his desire to return America to
>> traditional family values, despite his opposition (which, it could be
>> inferred from his words, is quite morally depraved).
>
>There is a lacking of traditional family values in this country.  If you don't
>see that problem, then maybe you are part of it.
>
>> I'm worried.  What am I to do if much of this comes to pass?  I don't
>> want my children to be singled out by sitting quietly during a school
>> prayer, 
>
>What's the difference?  Your kids don't have to pray if they don't want to. 
>Isn't that good enough?
	Sure, then the poor kid will be preyed upon by the school of pirannah 
afterwards... The state is essentially causing any religious deviants to be
singled out lest they wish to bye hypocrites: a yellow star...
>
>> I don't want my tax money to be spent on a public nativity
>> scene, 
>
>Too late.  It already is.
>
>> I don't want Jehovah's Witnesses to come by my door (as they
>> did twice right after Christmas).  
>
>They have the right to walk the streets and spread the twisted gospel that they
>do (unfortunately).
>
>> I just want to be left alone, and
>> not have well-meaning people try to bring the word of Jesus to me, and
>
>Then tell them to leave.  Is that too hard?
>
>> not have a well-meaning government decide what's morally best for me.
>
>Good!  Then oppose the liberal government that we have and push for the
>conservative stand!
>
	Reactionaries perhaps, but not the conservatives. Conservatives
actually brag about being moral repressives.
>> I have my own moral values which I'm perfectly happy to keep to
>> myself.  Heck, I won't even complain about the "In God We Trust" on
>> all my money, if it would just convince the Christians to keep their
>> religion out of my life.
>> 
>> I'm overreacting, I know, but just seeing Pat Robertson voicing a lot
>> of arguments so one-sided 
>
>I hate to break it to you, but your side is only one also.
>
>> I'm surprised they don't fall over is bad
>> enough -- seeing him on TV, with the phones around him ringing off the
>> hook with people pledging money to support him, really got to me.  How
>> _dare_ he try to pass _himself_ off as the oppressed one!
>
>Christianity is opressed in the U.S.  However, I've always heard that the
>opressed Church is the best!
> 
	Oh please... You have no concept of what real opression is. Or is it
that you define opressed as being deprived of the ability to opress others?

>
>ECM
>


-- 
	|||				...Your future hasn't been written yet.
       / | \				   No one's has. Your future is what 
    =Mysh+Krysa=			   you make it...    
							   -Emmet L. Brown-