From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Satan: Big Business
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:06:06 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

Tag: Jessica M. Mcgeary (jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary))
 
JMM> "And those who do stick with theistic views... will be
JMM> Wiccan. Because, as you know, the fundies will curl up
JMM> and die in the light of actual facts-- when the facts
JMM> are produced, of course. But Pagans, apparently, tolerate
JMM> just about any other kind of belief, and will occasionally
JMM> act in spite of the facts. Hence... the world'll be divided
JMM> between atheists and Pagans. Wouldn't THAT spook the
JMM> fundies?"
 
Goddess, let's HOPE so! (BIG SMILE!)
 
Wiccan like to mess with Fundi's minds by the use of humor,
while "Teen Satanists" do the same to their parents / Fundies
using scare tactics and shock (much to the assumement of all).
I wonder who the Fundamentalists fear / abhore the most? The
latter want very much to be taken seriously ("Teen Satanists"
seek attention, or at least RECOGNITION that their parents
care about them), while the former enjoy the parody and are
surprised and ammused if ANYONE takes them serious.
 
Remember Jerry Falwell's special issue of his weekly show,
which was called "My Bitter Cup?" This special of his showed
how persecuted he was because he was "doing god's work," and
he whined most piosly about how much he suffered "for god."
 
Well, one of his video cuts was of the time when someone walked
up to him while he was preaching, and tried to throw a cream pie
in his face. THAT'S the kind of folks Wiccan like in their
covens--- all clowns SHOULD get a pie in the face now and then.
Jerry's claiming Satan ordered the guy to do it just makes it
all the funnier.
 
All humor aside, spooking Fundies CAN GET PEOPLE KILLED. There's
a Wiccan coven in RI that has been shot at, and there's a neo-
Pagan group called "Pagan Fire," that is training Pagans in how
to defend themselves against the day True Christians [sic] once
again come for them.
 
What ever happened to leaving ones' neighbor in peace? -MOST-
Christians are fine people, whom anyone would be happy to have
as a neighbor--- yet there are LOONATIC Christians who would
just as soon put their neighbor to the sword "for god" than
look at them. One problem is that the latter seems to be the
loudest, and holds the most political power.
 
Makes me consider. . . . Satan never had to lead people away
from Christianity. Christians, by their example, do much finer
jobs of shoving would-be Christians away than Satan COULD EVER
do. (Of course Satan doesn't exist: I'm being hypothetical.)
 
Jimmy Swaggart has done a world of good, keeping people away
from Christianity--- I hope he stays in the business FOREVER.
 
I think it's a damn shame Bakker is in jail: I say, let him
out so that he can go back to doing "the lord's work." He
alone must have kept many thousands away from Christianity
(the tens of thousands still with him would be Christians
anyway, so he can't really take the blame for bringing them
into Christianity).
 
More power to them! Let them sleep with harlots for god! Let
them try stuffing pornography under their car seats while
driving. Let them demand eight million dollars so that god
won't kill them. Let them demand $500 from each true believer
"to fight world-wide Satanism." What better spokespersons could
anyone want, to talk people into staying away from Christianity?
 
Hell, one of -THE BEST- Christians to keep people away from
Christianity was the Assemblies of God's Reverand Jim Jones.
He kept them away at 930 people a shot. How Satan must -LOVE-
the Assemblies of God Church! Not only do they get the parents
out of Christianity by shooting them, but they shoot the
children, too--- planning for the future.
 
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My rant concludes with my pathetic, plantive wail: why is it
that -REAL- Christians, i.e. the kind, loving, compassionate,
caring, considerate, CHRIST-LIKE Christians fail to -DENOUNCE-
such individuals, LOUD and LONG and RELENTLESSLY, instead of
hiding their heads in the sand and when queried, just meekly
reply "they weren't real Christians?" Christians spend a great
deal of money and time keeping sex education out of public
schools--- could this money and time not be better spent
cleaning up their own back yards?!

--- Maximus 2.00