From: mark_puzniak@bigpond.com   
      
   "Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)"  wrote in message   
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   >I have never entirely understood the antipathy of Communists to religeon,   
   >but I'm starting to see it.   
   >   
   > On the one hand, as the chairman of the CPUSA once wrote in an editorial,   
   > the communists' argument is with captialism, not with God.   
   >   
   > On the other hand I see large numbers of Americans all but withdrawn from   
   > political debate because they have been sold a bill of goods that there is   
   > some sort of end of the world at hand, a propostion that anyone who has   
   > actually read the Bible will know is nonsense.   
   >   
   > I do understand that historically the churches have preached that people   
   > shouldn't ask for more and are taught that the rich are their rightful   
   > masters, which is enough, I suppose, to show the fraud behind much of   
   > religeon, but there is also much that does tend to make people uplifted   
   > and hopeful and better people.  I don't know how you seperate the two.   
   >   
   > I am not impressed with this silly creationism rubbish.  What is at issue   
   > is not who your grandfather was, but what you are now.  Did the missing   
   > link have a soul?  That was his problem.   
   >   
   Communism is the opiate of the stupid   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)