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20-08-2004, 09:59 PM

In article , (Bill
Oliver) wrote:

In article ,
paghat wrote:

The one & only place outside of a church where you're GUARANTEED to have
100% Christians is a Ku Klux Klan meeting.

Well, no. And the primary force combatting the KKK was Christian.
Antichristian bigots like to forget that Martin Luther King was
*Rev.* Martin Luther King.

billo

And bad people who try to coopt the ghosts of good people to their causes
hate to note that Martin could & did work well with Jews, agnostics, & all
kinds of people, & was poiitically inspired by a Hindu. Everyone from the
suffragists in Texas to the negro militia of Georgia fought the KKK, but
these few-in-number activists bucked a system in which "good" christians
in general did nothing, & the KKK relied on that to thrive. It's why for
over 100 years it was not possible for southern courts to find a white man
guilty of killing a black person.

It remains purely & simply a fact that the one place outside a church
you're GUARANTEED to have 100% christians is a Ku Klux Klan rally. You can
boast that the black guy they hung that day got nabbed leaving his Baptist
church, but that rather evades the point to the highest degree of malice.
I'm left waiting for a classier example of where exclusively Christians
turn up.

Whatever some good Quakers might be doing that's way nicer than that
doesn't change the above reality one whit. And even when looking at a
decent Christian movement like the Quakers, that doesn't seem ever to make
its way into political office. Our last Quaker president was first &
foremost a crook in office, who built his career on a foundation of
killing a couple Jews cuz they were commies, so that he, Nixon, made his
good pal & closet-fag Joe McCarthy seem cuddly by comparison.

Separation of church & state is a good idea. Too bad our present stinko
president doesn't think so.

-paghat the ratgirl

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