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To: Grainne who wrote (16286)	5/24/1998 7:49:00 AM
From: Sam Ferguson	Respond to of 39621

The Christian right is a real danger. I am sorry to report that most politicians I have come in contact with are a real danger for the same reason. Promises that they have others interests over their own. Take the wealth and corruption out of politics and you would find it difficult to find anyone interested. Demand the priesthood earn their living and teach as a gift of love. See how many would be left. I have witnessed victory parties in elections by the religious right. I personally am aware of one U.S. Senator from tenn. and one two members of the house, who as a reward for their election volunteers rented motels and hotels for a night of passion and drunkenness. They hired women to prostitute and put them on a different floor with instructions to do whatever the different men asked. Then after a feast and alchohol sated them the were told anyone who desired could sate themselves with sex as much as they desired with as many women as pleased them. I had a close and dear friend who was trapped in that and almost destroyed a happy family. He confided in me that he was suffering from the guilt and what an evil thing it was to his devoted wife. He said it almost destroyed his marriage and he was very repentent. By this experience he judged it evil. Another business acquaintance was bragging about his prowess and telling me I should have been. I thank God I wasn't. I was riciculed in many places because I didnd't care for alchohol. I grew up with an alcholic father. I know from experience the results I saw in him and others since. It wasn't religion as others thought. It was my evidence of the scientific experiments they were demonstrating. My inability to type is a physical limitation. I haven't time to proof read. Wish it were different for it limits my ability to express myself.

To: Grainne who wrote (16286)	5/24/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Christine, <<Curiously, the religious right, and particularly Dr. James Dobson, are making a strong play for control of the Republican party. If they are successful I believe the Democrats will stay in power in most states, because most Americans who are not members of the religious right are afraid of them.>> Your worry that the religious right will take over the republican party (and america?) is very interesting, especially in view of the fact that it is so unlikely that will ever happen. One reason is when the christians leave the republican party (because they will never take it over, it's not possible) the republican party will collapse and end up moving farther to the left politically to get votes. The christians will be disenfranchised and isolated politically. The interesting thing is that the anti-christian propaganda in the media has you believing christians are a threat and therefore make you willing to accept the persecution of the christians as a group. The same thing happened to the Jews in the past. Through clever propaganda the general public was made to feel that the Jews were a threat to them financially and politically. The "conditioning" make it possible for the holocaust because the public did not revolt when the murdering began. Actually it was a gradual escalation of persecution. First it was spoken on radio and written in papers, then attacking Jews and destroying (and stealing) there property. Then wearing arm bands! Did the populace say that's too far? NO. They had bought the propaganda. Then rounding them up for "relocation", and all their assets seized (stolen by the state). Objections? Nada! They just pretended they didn't know when the knowledge of the camps became widely known. But too late then even if they wanted to do anything, which by then they probably didn't. After all they were not doing the murdering themselves. Were they responsible? Christians are being built up to be some societal problem today, it's propaganda. The more we fight for our rights to be equal with atheists and the immoral the more we are seen as threats. Especially if we bring the conviction of the Holy Spirit for sin. Nobody wants to hear that homosexuality, adultery, fornication and any other of your favorite sins are wrong. Go along with the propaganda. You have a reason. Christians are always saying this or that is wrong and that makes you "uncomfortable". So really if they were "relocated" we wouldn't have to listen to them and they would stop messing up the "new age of man." Bob