--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Tom Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The world is not going to go to hell (unless, like that woman quoted > above, you think it already will). The world did not go to hell when > they stopped discriminating against Jews, it did not go to hell when > slavery was abolished, it did not go to hell when they integrated Major > League Baseball, it did not go to hell when they integrated the armed > forces, it did not go to hell after Brown vs the Board of Education, it > did not go to hell after the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, it did not > go to hell after the women's liberation movement of the 1970s, it did > not go to hell when we had vastly increased immigration (legal and > illegal) to the US, it did not go to hell when they let women into the > military academies, and it did not go to hell when the Supreme Court
> invalidated laws against racially mixed marriages (and the same kind of > people who are predicting it will go to hell now were predicting it > would go to hell after each and every one of those past events - I think tou are wrong. I think this is a knee-jerk programmed assumption that is not necisarily reality. > not > much of a track record on being right with their predictions, huh?) Some of the people who made those predictions are now very unhappy with the culture they live in. > and it's not going to go to hell now. Frankly, I wish the people who > make these predictions would look back on their dismal record of > inaccuracy (0%) and make the logical deduction. I'm not holding my > breath. If anyone actualy fits this stereotype then I would bet that they think things really have already "gone to hell". Preaching to those who already agree with you will do nothing to sway the opinions of those who do not. IMO _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
