Re: Heavens Gate (to Dave Court)
Ian Dorion (dorioni@intellinet.com)
Tue, 01 Apr 1997 06:51:47 -0600
Steven Carr wrote:
>
> David Court <hoover1@NETCOM.CA> writes
> How about Stalin? Can you connect him to Christianity too? I'm sure
> there is a way to do it. Can't wait to see what you come up
> with.
>
> CARR
> Well, Stalin's mother wanted him to be a priest. He got extremely high
> marks at the Seminary that he went to and was one of their best pupils.
> I've never seen any evidence that Stalin was an atheist. Georgian
> peasants tend to believe in God, but he may well have been an atheist in
> later life . Of course, he was against the Russian Orthodox Church, but
> that was it because it was a possible source of power and he felt all
> power should be in his hands.
>
> You do know that Poland was both a Communist and a Catholic state.
>
> The Russian Orthodox Church, now that it has some power back, has turned
> back to making life hard for members of other denominations. Other
> denominations find their meetings broken up and , in some cases, their
> Bibles have been burned, because they are American Protestant Bibles.
>
> David Court
> Oh yes, and Tung. They MUST have talked to a Christian at some time
> that must qualify them eh?
>
> CARR
> Nobody has ever claimed that Tung believed in God.
(Christ-Ian 4/1) I'll bow to Steven Carr on this. I never really studied
Stalin that much and I've never heard of Tung. In fact my "Timetables of
History" doesn't even mention him.