Bob, I know that you deeply believe everything you are writing to me, but your posts just terrify me--that anyone could believe that way.
Hitler was Catholic, first of all. The Catholics and Protestants in Europe were responsible for millions of deaths not just during the Holocaust, but earlier, during the Inquisition. Satan is a creation of Christianity, not paganism. When you talk about Satan to people who are not Christian, they just think you are mentally ill, seeing things that do not exist. Modern pagans believe in saving the planet earth, making sure that no more animals go extinct, and in religious freedom for everyone--including you. There is nothing at all evil about that. Bombing abortion clinics and Federal buildings and destroying the lives of homosexual children are all quite evil actions, however. It puzzles me that you cannot see the inaccuracies of your statements, or how dangerous and negative is the crusade you support.
I have no idea where you got your ideas, but the only places I find them, as I have said before, are on militia web pages. The ideology you represent is racist, bigoted, violent and almost insane to me. I can feel no love in it, at all.
Barry Goldwater was an American patriot. He loved freedom, and was a fierce defender of it. At the same time, he revered American Indian culture, loved and accepted his homosexual grandchild, and understood that sometimes, regrettably, abortion is a necessary evil, a lesser evil than women dying in desperation because they cannot support and nurture a child. He was under no pressure at all, was a man of integrity and deeply held convictions, and obviously was more of a libertarian than a conservative Christian. Some of his political ideas, but not his core values, meshed with the Christian right, and I think conservatives assumed he had beliefs in common with them, when he did not. In fact, he was the descendant of Polish Jews, and was reared as an Episcopalian. |
