The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-11
By Geo. D. Coleman

By Geo. ID. Coleman
Are you aware that two colhtries
either OF whose populations separate
~ is greater than all the five powers
Iwho run the Disarmament Conference
were not allowed participation, but al
lowed only to state their case and then
retire and let the powers Of lesser Do
pulatlon decide for them, they being
barred out9 ! speak of China and In
ola. In other words, not being peo-
pies inclined to militansm and not
having armies and nayies to fear, thew
were treated as interiors and as NOT
possessed OF rights which the militant
nations were in any way bound to re-
sPect. Be it also borne in mind that
the nations who thus superciliousIv
treated these two claim to be Chris
tan nations, while these two are non-
Christian nations!
10 Americans, Asia NAV be said II
be an unknown continent that has 600
inllllon and more population. These
are about one billion people that have
grievance against nations which
call themselves Christians, and whose
representatives are soldiers who treat
them with cruelty, injustice, and an
overbearng supercilious contempt
with navles and their guns that threat
en- lite and property. and have spread
havoc and destruction when these nom
Christians dared to disobey their AFRO
giant commands. To you, the thing
called Christianity is a very different
thing to what it is to some one bill
lion non-Christian people of the world.
What you hear preached from the pull
pits of the churches is only theology
that calls itself religion and makes no
pretenslon to dominate politically and
exploit economically and make sub
servient vassals of peoples deemed in
terlor, because they are not warlike
and powerful as military powers; yet
the latter statement is the fact, and
to these billion non-Christian people
this system that is practiced by the
Christian nations represents Christian
lty to them, and, TO their minds, Chris
tlanlty and brutal soldiery-Christian-
lty and conquest-are identical. Don't
blame them for this opinion; for it is
based on their experience. | have
talked with intelligent and educated
'Mohammedans, Parsees, Buddhists,
Brahmans, and Confucians, and heard
their statements of what | knew to be
facts undeniable.
1t is the fact that people protesting
to be Christians are most un-Chris-
tian, that strikes the non-Christian peo-
pie as their first and constant impress
sion. The late world war was waged
between nations that made the highest
claims to being Christians, and both
sides offered up prayers to the same
God for victory for their arms and the
wholesale murder of the others. Can
it be claimed that. he who was called
The Prince of Peace could possibly
be friend of the wholesale murder
and hell of war? The question should
answer itself; yet over 90 percent of
protesting Christians fail to see the
blasphemy and hypocrisy of it, and it
is just this fanaticaI blindness that is
leading surely to another war in many
ways worse than the late world war.
Wung lung Fang was asked which
would be best for the world, Confu-
cianism or Christianity. He replied:
Christianity has never yet been tried. %
He, as an intelligent and educated
man, refused to recognize the thing
calling itself Christianity as in any way
related to the person of Jesus Christ
or to his teachings. But the nom
Christian peoples. as rule, have not
his discrimination, and know Christian
ity not by its doctrines and professions,
but by its deeds. They simply follow
the rule laid down by Jesus in the SER
mon on the Mount: by their fruits
ye shall know them" Let me tell you
of some of its fruits. which are open
and undeniabIe facts.
Since the establishment, some four
years ago, of the Soviet Republic of
Russia, we have been told of the anti
Christian and anti-religious attitude of
the Soviet schools. 1t is due to a
cause that is broad and all-sufficient.
Russia under the Gar was most re-
ligious government. The Church and
State ,uere united and The Gar WAS