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To: goldworldnet who wrote (168757)	8/8/2001 3:37:35 AM
From: asenna1	Respond to of 769667

WE HAS MET THE ENEMY, AND THEY IS US" "Today a vast and extraordinarily complex religo-political system has emerged in the United States - a keiretsu-like network of conservative religious and political organizations with interlocking boards of directors, similar sources of funding and 'cross-over' memberships - which aims at taking over the country. The actual number of organizations which are a part of this system is mind-boggling; so intertwined have these organizations become that it is difficult any longer to separate out the secular component from the religious component. Sadly, it is into this 'right-wing web' that countless numbers of Christians are being drawn - a web which historically has been permeated with racist, anti-Semitic and fascist ideas. Most Christians, of course, will deny that they are being affected at all by such thinking; but in the end, the only people they may be kidding are themselves. "Our network of associations with one another - whether civic, religious, social, or personal - forms an integrated system of arteries down through which notions of all sort journey - sometimes to our benefit, and sometimes to our detriment. By such means, ideas become infectious; uplifting us on the one hand, and corrupting us on the other. It is in this way that we can properly speak of the contagion of evil; if left unchecked within a community, evil, like a vicious cancer, has a treacherous way of using the network of our social, political and religious relationships to spread it's venom throughout the entire body; of using the bands which connect us together as channels of corruption. By such means evil can demolish not only the individual Christian, but the entire Christian community. The Bible says, 'A little leaven leavens the whole lump.' (Gal. 5:9) "And just how far the interconnection between far-right ideologues and the Christian community has progressed can be easily demonstrated. To pick just a few examples, take Robert Grant. Grant is considered a 'big hitter' in the Christian Right and is associated with Christian Voice, a publication which receives financial backing from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, a group which teaches that Christ failed in His effort to save us, and that He had sex with the women who surrounded Him. Grant told Christianity Today that it was necessary for Christians to form political ties with 'philosophical allies' from other communities in order to build up an effective political alliance strong enough to 'take the country back for Christ and the church.'

To: goldworldnet who wrote (168757)	8/8/2001 3:45:15 AM
From: asenna1	Respond to of 769667

"Then there's Tom Ellis who several years ago succeeded well-known evangelical leader Tim LaHaye as president of the Council on National Policy (CNP), one of the principal coordinating agencies between the secular right and the religious right, and who was then succeeded himself by Pat Robertson. Ellis was a director of the Pioneer Fund, a foundation which finances efforts to prove that African-Americans are genetically inferior to whites (Please see our article on the Pioneer Fund. Ellis has said, 'The eventual goal of this movement (i.e., integration) is racial intermarriage ...' by which he means the disappearance of the 'white race.' Recipients of Pioneer grants have included William Schockley, Arthur Jensen, and Roger Pearson - the same Roger Pearson which has written that 'inferior races' should be 'exterminated.' (Please see our article on the Bell Curve ) Again, the question might fairly be asked, what are avowed Christian evangelicals doing cavorting with people who advocate - explicitly or even implicitly - such things? What does that say about Tim LaHaye and Pat Robertson? "Ellis claims to have disavowed these beliefs, and many Christians believe that they are under an obligation to take at face value such disavowals. But Christians should also remember that those who repent are under an obligation to 'bring forth fruits worthy of repentance' - in other words, more is involved in repentance than saying 'I'm sorry.' It calls for a change in lifestyle. Where is Ellis' change in lifestyle when he continues to involve himself with such groups as the Pioneer Fund? Words in the absence of deeds are meaningless. The Book of James declares that faith not backed up by works is dead. (James 2:17) "Of course, there are those who would say that such thinking implies 'guilt by association' - and to a certain extent, that's true! But the plain fact of the matter is, the relationships we keep, the fellowships we sustain, and the institutional associations we support - especially our religious and political ones - do indeed go a long way in defining us as persons. The truth is, the idea of 'community' implies a certain commonalty - a commonalty in beliefs, heritage, interests, etc. As a result - and more often than we care to admit - these relationships imply 'acceptance,' 'acceptance' not only of the people with whom we affiliate, but more often than not, of their thoughts as well. As we have already indicated, ideas are infectious and while good ideas can ennoble us, bad ideas pollute everything they touch. This is why the Lord warns us against 'mixture' - the mixing of the 'profane' with the 'holy.' It leads to a condition where 'the good' is mixed with 'the bad' - a condition which the Bible indicates NEVER works out in favor of 'the good' (again, 'a little leaven leavens the whole lump'): 'Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 'But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 'Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; 'And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. (Ex. 34:12, 13,15-16) "Surely those on the Secular or even Religious Right should have no argument with this - i.e., with the notion of 'guilt by association.' Their old McCarthy era friends took this concept to its extreme in their efforts to ferret out 'communists' and 'communist sympathizers' during the 'Great Communist Scare' of 1946-1954 - and they found nothing wrong with this concept at that time. Why should they find anything wrong with it now? McCarthy era demagogues had a name for those whom they deemed 'guilty by association:' they were called 'fellow travelers' - people who 'traveled' in the same circles as communists and avowed communist sympathizers. In the McCarthyite lexicon, nothing could be as damning as that epitaph. They understood that association more often than not implied agreement. "This was true during the McCarthy era, and it's true today. As the evangelical Christian community has been ever more drawn into the 'right-wing matrix,' it has been deeply affected by its new found 'friends' and 'associations.'"