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September 18, 1994
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Sunday e-sermon #1
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Greetings, and welcome to the Church of Euthanasia. Hopefully almost all of
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you have received issue number one of our journal by now. I am sure that many
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questions still remain, and I'll try to address the most popular ones, which
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are how, and why.
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How did we find you? A detailed explanation would not be appropriate here, but
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suffice it to say that all of you have posted to one or more of the same
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newsgroups over the last month or so. These newsgroups were carefully chosen
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for their degree of intersection with the core principles of the church. We
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knew that many would react negatively to our methods, but felt this was
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outweighed by the need to make a widespread, immediate impact.
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Why did we do this? As many of you are no doubt aware, the population summit
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concluded this week in Cairo. If you have been following it in the papers, you
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will know that almost nothing of any substance was accomplished. Most of the
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conference was devoted to an acrimonious battle with the new Vatican-Muslim
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alliance over whether the various charters that were signed could contain the
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words 'abortion' and 'contraception.'
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Meanwhile, entire nations are starving to death, while Americans watch it on
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television. Almost every day for the last month there has been at least one
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article in the Boston Globe about overpopulation. Many of them have stated
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clearly that the population is expected to double in twenty years. This news
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might as well be on the sports page: the spectacle continues without
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interruption.
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The turbines still spin, the oil is still sucked out of the earth, the cars and
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trucks still poison the air. The consumers still stand in line in supermarkets
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to buy food wrapped in plastic. The ideals displayed on American television
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still dominate the daily lives of billions of human beings. What will man do
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when even the bottled water is poisonous? What will he do when the air makes
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him sick, and the sun is so strong he can't go outside anymore?
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The planet is a living being, and quite capable of self-defense. If the
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two-leggeds cannot control their numbers, she will do it for them, and her
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measures will be harsh. Read the Hopi prophecies. Many of them have already
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come true. Now is the time of 'koyaanisqatsi,' or 'life out of balance.'
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The Internet is the backbone of the so-called 'cyberculture,' an impossible
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vision of the future in which men 'rule' the Earth through machines. It is for
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this reason most of all that we felt it so important to target the Internet.
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Messages were delivered to the Whitehouse, to heads of corporations, to
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high-ranking members of the military, to scientists, professors, and just
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regular folks. Needless to say, many of the recipients are upset. This is a
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regrettable, but neccessary consequence of any Dada action.
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Dada turns people upside down, by temporarily destroying one or more of their
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everyday assumptions. The suspension of 'normal' assumptions allows messages
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that would ordinarily be screened out to penetrate, even if only for a short
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time. The method is unpleasant, but highly effective when dealing with strong
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indoctrination such as that provided by television programming, or university
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education, for example. Internet users are by in large highly educated members
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of the elite, and therefore very likely to be indoctrinated.
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The Internet is far more than a communication system, a web of wires and
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computers: the Internet is a set of assumptions, based on the specific
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world-view of its creators. Who are these creators, and what is their
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world-view? The Internet depends directly on the institutions of the consumer
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culture, including the federal government, the military, and the universities
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and corporations that cooperate with them. Let us not forget that the Internet
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has its roots in ARPAnet (the Department of 'Defense') and NSFnet (the National
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'Science' Foundation). The Defenders of Science. Why are they defending
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science? Who are they defending it from?
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They are defending it from us, my friends, from the Church of Euthanasia and
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many other groups like us who oppose their senseless war with our Mother the
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Earth. Their schools teach that what cannot be measured, does not exist. This
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is Empiricism, the foundation of the spectacle, the principle that Socrates
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died for. Their leaders say that everyone is entitled to as much as they want,
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of whatever they want, if they have the money to buy it. This is the American
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Way, of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the violent and
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ruthless. Their elites are determined to fight to the bitter end for their
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world-view. Their God is Moloch, who eats his children, leaving only filth,
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solitude, and ugliness. In the words of the Cree People:
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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
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Only after the last river has been poisoned,
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Only after the last fish has been caught,
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Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
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Let us pray.
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Spirits of the four directions, East, South, West, and North,
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Powers of the Elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth,
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Wheel of the seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter,
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Be here now, as we invoke this sacred space,
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And for a moment in time, free ourselves from all limitations,
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>From all delusions of separateness.
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Be here now, and help us, to draw our spirits down
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>From the lonely flights of the ego, into our bodies,
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And let us be filled with the joy of your limitless light,
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Beyond the bounds of time,
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where night and day,
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Birth and death,
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joy and sorrow,
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meet as one.
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At this very moment, American warships surround Haiti.
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The second time the United States invaded Haiti, in 1915,
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it kept troops there for nineteen years.
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Let us take a moment of silence,
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and extend our hearts to the people of Haiti.
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The Circle is open, but unbroken.
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Rev. Chris Korda The Church of Euthanasia
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