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To: haqihana who wrote (21484)	6/24/2000 7:11:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Haqi, you and Father Terrence are both right of center, not that is a bad place to be. FT is a little more right than you. Right meaning conservative. Not right vs wrong.

To: haqihana who wrote (21484)	6/24/2000 11:20:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bible-thumping preacher? I think not, good sir! Christianity and Communism's Common Denominator: Self-sacrifice When the Pope visited the Communist Dictatorship of Cuba and he greeted its ruler Fidel Castro with open arms, much of the differences between the two figures were talked in the press, but virtually no one commented on what the two have in common. Philosophically, the Pope and Fidel Castro are fundamentally related. Christianity and Communism are two sides of the same moral coin of altruism; both differ only in their stated ends, not their means. Christianity commands that an individual have faith in and sacrifice his life for God -- an alleged supernatural entity that is everything in general and nothing in particular. Communism demands that an individual have faith in and sacrifice his life for "society" -- a mystical-like entity that is no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Christians maintain that Communism's evil comes from its atheism; however, in reality, that evil stems from Christianity's moral roots of faith and self-sacrifice. Thus, their ultimate ends have been neither God nor "society," but their shameful, bloody histories.