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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30187)	9/28/2001 11:07:44 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 82486

Christianity's biggest threat has been what? What do you think of the real story of Dracula? How he saved Christendom? Osama swore on the Koran he is innocent of wrongdoing. The evidence that he is not innocent is overwhelming. Would a holy man do this? What is the Rock Hudson movie, where he faught in India? A great movie.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30187)	9/29/2001 2:06:19 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 82486

What would Gandhi do? By Rev. Dr. Marni Harmony \| MY WORD Posted September 28, 2001 Mohandas Gandhi. He was the apostle of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India. Poet May Sarton wrote that "loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." In these troubled days, I want to add that separation and isolation represent the poverty of community; diversity is the richness of community. On Oct. 2, 132 years ago, Mohandas Gandhi was born in a small seaside town in western India. When Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall said, "Mahatma Gandhi was the spokesman for the conscience of humankind." As utterly and imperfectly human as any one of us, this one man offered the world a vision of satyagraha (or soul force -- the force which is born of truth and love and nonviolence) that brought out the best in humanity and changed the world. During the past two weeks I have often found myself thinking, "What would Gandhi do?" I do not know what Gandhi would do. But I take comfort in some of his words and the guidance they offer. We have now seen in a way that can never be erased from our memory what happens when hatred is cultivated. We have seen on a scale that has horrified us what happens when human hearts lose their way home. Gandhi was a man of the heart. And his council was to "cleanse your heart and . . . make your heart as broad as the ocean." How many tragedies -- how many more acts of outer and inner terrorism will it take for us to heed the most fundamental teachings of all of our world's great religions: that our hearts must turn toward peace and unity. What more must it take for us to realize the importance of healing ourselves and our world? So often we have been wounded by life in small and great ways. Can we finally receive the divine invitation to love? Please don't let it take the death of our world to convince us that the world is a good and worthy place, deserving of our reverence. Please don't let the new fear of terrorism lead to little deaths of all of us, of the human spirit, if we respond by closing and protecting our hearts and drawing a tighter circle that excludes those who differ or are different. "Mine is not an exclusive love," Gandhi wrote. Please be strong enough to keep nurturing life -- all of life -- and creating a heart "as broad as the ocean" and a mind of radical non-separateness. Gandhi understood the power of love to still fear and heal hatred. He knew that hatred limits and injures the hater more than the hated. He continually opposed fear with faith and love. He understood how fear continually prevents us from being who we can be, and he strove to conquer fear within himself. Gandhi believed in and respected the truth found in all religions. And he understood that the greatest battlefield of all lives in the human heart, wherein the forces of light and darkness, love and separateness, compete for mastery over our thoughts and actions. The path of soul force is a path that seeks to overcome evil by good, anger by love, untruth by truth, and violence by non-violence. "Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization," Gandhi wrote in 1925. I believe our civilization is on the threshold of our greatest test yet. I want to believe we have learned enough to pass. The Rev. Dr. Marni Harmony is the minister at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando. orlandosentinel.com

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30187)	9/29/2001 5:33:40 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 82486

White House Memo Supports Overthrowing Taliban - CNN NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A White House memorandum shows the U.S. supports overthrowing Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government, the Cable News Network reported Saturday. CNN said it had obtained the "contents" of the memo, which it said was prepared for President George W. Bush by senior State Department and National Security Council officials. The memo indicates that not only does the U.S. administration consider the Taliban an illegitimate regime, but that it will directly aid those who seek to topple it. "We do not want to choose who rules Afghanistan, but we will assist those who seek a peaceful, economically developing Afghanistan, free of terrorism," CNN quoted the memo as saying. The U.S. has demanded the Taliban hand over Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born millionaire living in Afghanistan whom the U.S. accuses of masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. No indication was given in the memo of whom the U.S. would support - whether the Northern Alliance opposing the Taliban, the country's former king or moderate forces within the Taliban, CNN said. The document also expressed support for the Afghan people, it said. "Our quarrel is not with Islam or the Afghan people. We have stood with Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo and Kuwait and we aided Afghans in the liberation struggle against the former Soviet Union. We will support the Afghan people in the future. They deserve peace and stability, freedom from foreign terrorists and a government that represents all Afghans. We call on others to join us so we can help Afghans recover and rebuild," CNN quoted the memo as saying. - by Jeff McCulley, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-4370; jeff.mcculley@dowjones.com (END) DOW JONES NEWS 09-29-01 05:31 PM