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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (3013)	10/31/2000 8:15:29 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I love the idealism of socialists. I just wish it worked. Modified clear eyed socialism works- if you can give to your fellow man with an eye to the weaknesses of humanity, and not give in such a way that you magnify those weaknesses, then I think you can do great good. Of course there are always a certain percentage who never want to give to anybody. People who never seem to realize that unless you are a hermit you depend on society in many ways- and that when all people in society are better off we are all better off. I'm not one of those people. I like helping out, and I am pleased to do as much as I can. I only wish I could do more. I do not even wish to have a penny back of the money the government takes from our family to help others. I'm glad the government is helping unfortunate people- I only wish it helped more people and did a better job.

To: E who wrote (3013)	10/31/2000 9:25:37 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Socialism seeks a lowest common denominator to build and project it's gang mentality from, Original Sin is it. THE SLAPPING CATECHIST Once in a Prague district court one of the judges went mad. For a long time no one noticed it in him until it suddenly erupted during a libel action. A chap called Znamenacek met on the street a chaplain called Hortik, who had boxed his son's ears during religious instruction, and said to him: "You bloody bastard, you dirty scum, you religious maniac you filthy hog, you presbytery goat, you debaucher of Christ's teaching, you hypocrite and charlatan in a cassock!" And so the chaplain sued him. That mad judge was a very religious man. He had three sisters and they were all vicarage cooks and he had been a godfather to all their children. And so he got so infuriated that he suddenly lost his reason and roared at the accused: "In the name of His Majesty the Emperor and King you are condemned to death by hanging. There is no appeal." Then he called the warder: "Mr Horacek, take this gentleman out and go hang him there, you know, where they beat the carpets, and after that come back here and you'll get a tip!" Of course Mr Znamenacek and the warder stood rooted to the spot, but the judge stamped his foot and shouted at them: "Are you going to obey or not!" The warder was so frightened that he had already begun to drag Mr Znamenacek down, and if it hadn't been for the defending counsel who intervened and called an ambulance I don't know how it would have fared for Mr Znamenacek. And even when they were putting the judge into the ambulance he was still shouting: "If you can't find a rope, hang him with a bed-sheet. We'll credit it to you in the half-yearly returns..."'