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...presents... The Future
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by Alien Hin
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>>> a cDc publication.......1991 <<<
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-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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It is 2045.
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The past now haunts the present with a vengeance. Roughly half of the
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planet's population had died of AIDS, which, curiously, never was cured. The
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Brazillian rain forest has long-since vanished, as have most of the world's
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trees, leaving a rank, fouled atmosphere hanging like a dark pall over the
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dying earth. Every last river, lake, stream and marsh extent has been reduced
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to a toxic, mercury-laden swill. The rains that once brought life now seethe
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an acidic death. The ozone layer is gone; the sun bathes the world in lethal
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doses of radiation-everyone, it seems, has some degree of skin cancer, and most
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children are born with varying degrees of mutation. But it is unclear whether
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the source is the polluted water, the UV rays from the sun, or the fallout from
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the bombs.
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Yes, the bombs... what a bitter disappointment they had been for all.
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It was secretly hoped that the world would finally end, mercifully, with a
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bang. But it didn't. Indeed, a good number of cities were vaporized in
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blinding flashes on that fateful day in 2029-but the resulting electromagnetic
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pulse knocked out the computers that controlled the remaining missiles, along
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with everything else. "Mutually Assured Destruction" ended up as a cruel hoax.
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More like mutually assured misery for the majority that survived.
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Deprived then of their lifeblood-electricity-the remaining cities became
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dead, decaying, monolithic hulks haunted solely by murderous, marauding gangs
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as the populace largely abandoned their former lives and set out into the
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anarchistic unknown in search of... anything else.
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It was in this horrific environment that the Christian Reformists seized
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power.
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Leeching off of the desperation of the masses, spouting empty promises of
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spiritual panaceas, pointing fingers of blame at alleged "sin," they wooed
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their quarry into their cruel slavery by convincing them that they were EVIL
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and needed to be CONTROLLED-supposedly by God, in actuality by arrogant men.
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They backed their claim of "divine right" to power with seeming "miracles"
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-restoring (strictly) limited electricity to towns and cities under their
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dominion; eking out a modest food supply with greenhouses and hydroponics;
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providing relatively purified water; offering unheard-of medical care to the
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lucky amongst their obedient herd of sheep. And all that they asked, or rather
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demanded, in return for their benevolence was the utter surrender of their
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subjects' souls-"to Christ."
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It was very much like Iran after the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism late
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in the Twentieth Century. It differed, however, from that ugly period in that
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it was necessary for the Christian Reformists to dispense with a good degree of
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the basis of their supposed faith in order to maintain their ironclad grip on
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power. Things like love, pacifism, compassion-all that wimpy hippy-esque
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garbage that Christ made passing references to every now and again. That had
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to go-couldn't wash in an authoritarian society. Oh sure, they paid lip
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service to it all, but ever since the Inquisition, they never felt any real
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need to practice it.
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For example: AIDS was still a big problem, and an obvious punishment from
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God for man's deviant sexuality, they said. And, as Paul said, "It is not good
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for a man to touch a woman." Therefore, sex was expressly forbidden-except for
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purposes of procreation only, and even then ONLY amongst married couples who
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had sought and received permission from the church elders. The punishment for
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violating this law was summary execution.
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(Actually, this was the church's response to their knowledge that sex is
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the single most liberating and enlightening human activity there is. Can't
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have the underlings going about expanding their consciousnesses and feeling any
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real love-would breed deviance)
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Another capital crime was Blasphemy, and this could be just about
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anything. It was really just an arbitrary way for the church to rid itself of
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potential troublemakers. Questioning the church's authority=Blasphemy. Death.
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Using the lord's name in vain (and thus calling into question the validity of
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this totalitarian regime-if you don't fear God, how can you fear the church?)=
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Blasphemy. Death. Sort of comparable to the Reign of Terror in post-
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revolutionary France.
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There were countless other ways one could get oneself put before a firing
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squad-listening to old recordings of very forbidden "Rock-n-Roll Devil's
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Music"; dancing; kissing or petting amongst unmarried couples; wearing "whore's
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paint" (make-up); dressing inappropriately (a very arbitrary deal); reading the
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wrong kind of books; drawing the wrong kind of pictures. These weren't really
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capital crimes as such-generally, if you wept and repented and grovelled well
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enough before the elders, you'd probably get off with a cut in your food ration
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for a couple of weeks. But if one showed the slightest bit of defiance or lack
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of remorse, that was it. Death.
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Although outsiders-stragglers who wandered in from other parts of the
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still languishing countryside-were frowned upon because they might bring in
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unorthodox ideas (they were therefore usually expelled from the territory), the
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realm had a rabid sense of imperialistic expansionism. That was the commoners'
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job; their reason for existing-facilitating the cancerous growth of the realm
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by restoring electric grids to outlying areas, subjugating the indigenous folk
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in the yet-unwashed towns, indoctrinating the "heathen" children as to their
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own twisted brand of Christianity, murdering those who opposed them, etc. It
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was the new "Manifest Destiny," and it rolled over the countryside like a
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juggernaut, ingesting and annihilating everything in its path.
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They arrived here, surrounding our once-peaceful little refuge in these
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quiet hills, about two years ago.
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Our little town of four hundred had already restored electric power to our
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homes long ago, using windmills. We also used them to drill wells straight
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down to the Edwards Aquifer and thus provide fresh, clean water. We even
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restored RUNNING water and developed a makeshift sewage system-not like those
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foul pits that the Reformists, in their graciousness, bestowed upon their
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subjects. And WE knew how to use greenhouses too. We had plenty of food.
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So when their emissaries showed up that day, offering us all the wonderful
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amenities of their glorious empire in a mere exchange for our souls, we said
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thankyouverymuchbutno and figured that was the end of it. After all, we felt
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no threat from "Christians." We were horribly wrong.
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Naturally, we had a defense system in place-a militia of sorts and some
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well-placed bunkers-to fend off the marauding hordes of "Road Warriors" that we
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figured would show up someday. But there was no way we could have prepared for
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this. No way at all.
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Our refusal... infuriated them. It seemed that most other people had
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succumbed passively, without question. We didn't, and we earned their wrath.
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For three weeks they rained death upon our little town. The explosions... the
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fires... the blood literally running in the streets. I watched them kill my
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son. I watched them rape my daughter-in-law, then kill her too. I watched
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them stringing up children from tree limbs. I watched them burn my house, and
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my neighbors houses too.
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And then I watched them strolling into our town, grinning like the
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mindless zombies they are, singing their insipid, meaningless hymns, praising
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their God for providing them with such a nice place to overrun and occupy.
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They let me live because I am just a pathetic, pitiful, beaten old man. I'm no
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threat to them.
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But then again, I suppose I really am, after all. Because I still think
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for myself; I remember the days when one could be free without fear of death-
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I even remember such times BEFORE the birth of this little oasis that now
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serves as my prison. I remember when there was such a thing as a separation of
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church and state-put in something called the Constitution of the United States
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of America at the behest of a brilliant man named Thomas Jefferson to keep this
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sort of thing from ever happening. And for 240 years, it worked.
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Two-hundred-and-forty... wonderful years. Poor Jefferson. Most people
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nowadays don't even know his name. The Reformists saw to that, you betcha.
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I hate my life. I hate this empire. I hate what this world has become.
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I hate the swaggering, small-minded motherfucking sons of bitches who dictate
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to our lives. I hate these blind, vapid fools who go about cooing "God's sooo
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goood! Isn't God goood?" Bah! Tell that to my dead son.
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And if there IS a God, then I hate Him, too.
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- Dec. 25, 2045.
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Inspired by:
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- "A Handmaid's Tale"
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a novel by Margaret Atwood
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- "One Time, One Place"
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a poem by Nivek Ogre
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"Your Tyrant Who Rules... Is Such A Fool."
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- Ogre, 1987.
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An Afterthought:
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Item in today's newspaper...
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"NAIROBI, Kenya-Hundreds of male students at a Catholic boarding school
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stormed a dormitory in an assault that left 19 schoolgirls dead and nearly 70
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injured, reports said today. Some of the girls said they were raped.
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About 300 teen-age boys took part in the assault Saturday night at the St.
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Kizito Mixed Secondary School near Meru, 105 miles northeast of Nairobi.
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Reports said the girls who died were either trampled or suffocated when they
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crammed into small rooms or huddled in corners..."
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X-ianity at its foulest.
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When I completed and solicited opinions on an earlier, more detailed (and
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better) version of the preceding story-originally titled "Reformation"-a
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recurring criticism that I heard was something along the lines of
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"But Christians don't have a penchant for the kind of violence presented
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in this piece. It's against their dogma."
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Nonsense. I wonder whose history these critics are studying. Granted,
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CHRIST had no such taste for violence-I never implied or believed thus.
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"Christians," however, are a different story. I would point out the estimated
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six-and-a-half MILLION souls offered up in torrents of fire for "heresy" during
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the Dark Ages and the Inquisition. Or the bloody saga of the "Holy" Roman
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Empire. Or the trail of misery and death left behind by the Crusaders. Or the
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Childrens' Crusade, for that matter. What a concept! Imagine what it was
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like, standing on the shores of the azure Mediterranean, watching the little
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bloated bodies wash ashore in a festering, stinking, relentless tide. Boy,
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dontcha know Christ musta just been BEAMING over that spectacle!
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More recently, I would note the near-orgasmic frenzy that Pat Robertson
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would get worked up into over the wanton slaughter of the Iraqis. And the
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corresponding displays of blind nationalism in churches across this great land-
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I saw one service on television in which a column of soldiers in FULL BATTLE
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GEAR came marching up the aisle toward the altar, waving flags and carrying
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MACHINE GUNS, for God's sake! I could just hear Christ's screeches. Whatever
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happened to "Love thine enemies," or "Thou shalt not kill"? Obviously too
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inconvenient.
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It's not the falling short of Christ's standards that bothers me, it's
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when those standards are utterly dismissed and the perpetrators try to cover
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their bloody transgressions with Christ's name and alleged blessing that I
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become incensed.
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.ooM |1991 cDc communications by Alien Hin 08/31/91-#185|
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\_______/|All Rights Pissed Away. FIVE YEARS of cDc|
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