Re: Heavens Gate (to Ian)
Rick Chapman (rchap@en.com)
Tue, 01 Apr 1997 19:28:31 -0500
Ian Dorion wrote:
>
> 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.
I think the mistake is in the name. Jerry said Tung, It should be Mao,
as in Mao-tse-Tung.
Rick