"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 07:58 PM 6/9/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > >I have a question for Erik on this thread, and nothing of his to really > >quote to give me an opening without quoting a long message (and that > >might be irritating): > > > >What is your opinion of Quakers? They're a sect of Christianity, but > >they espouse some beliefs that many Christians don't regarding war, > >etc., and they don't have a history of the sorts of abuses that many > >other groups fo Christians have. > > > >Just curious. > > Using the same argument found in an early paragraph of the Leonard Pitts > article (thanks for the reference): > > "Richard Nixon was a Quaker."
How a Quaker could have done some of the things that Nixon did is beyond me.
Julia
who feels the same way about Eric Rudolph, actually
Which makes the point that not everyone who says they are a member of a particular religion (or political party, or any other organization) is necessarily a good example of the ideals of that organization.
BTW, a report aired locally suggested that the reason Rudolph (allegedly � he hasn't been convicted yet) bombed the abortion clinic was less a "pro-life"/"abortion is murder" stance than the idea that too many _white_ women were aborting their babies, thereby contributing to the problem of the inferior races coming to outnumber whites.
-- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :)
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