On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:22:11 -0400, Mike Coslo
wrote:

John Kasupski wrote:
On 07 Aug 2004 18:56:04 GMT, PAMNO (N2EY) wrote:

All of this is *way* off topic for this NG and belongs in some
political discussion group.

Not to worry, John. This is our group therapy and most anything goes.
Probably best to stay out of the Len/Brian/Steve donnybrook tho'!

Agreed.

Communism is at odds with religion - dooming it to failure because it
is human nature to look for answers to questions that science cannot
answer and thus only religion can provide.

Now here we differ. Whatever problems "lack" of religion may cause are
overshadowed by the problems that religion *causes*. I am perfectly
happy to have religions coexist together - problem is, the religion's
adherants are often not.

On a global scale, you have a point. However, I was referring to
communist countries in general - and the USSR in particular - where
the commie ideology forbids the notion of any power higher than the
politburo and The Chairman.

The more intelligent people are, the more difficult it becomes to deny
the existence of a higher power. I'm personally not a very religious
man myself, insofar as I don't subscribe to the specific systems of
beliefs championed by the established, organized religions, but one
needs only look at the human body and consider how complex are all the
interactions between the various systems (respiratory, digestive,
reproductive, etc.). To me it is all far too complex to be an
accident, and I think there has to be some higher power at work - I
just don't claim to know anything about the nature of said higher
power. In the USSR there was Judaism, Catholicism, and sundry other
religions - all of them declared wrong by a government with the power
and the inclination to punish people simply for holding the beliefs
that they did. I submit that such a system of government is doomed to
fail as soon as its people get beyond the stage of worshipping the
moon and sun and start acquiring some scientific knowledge - which
raises more questions than it can answer.

Well yeah - he shouldn't have lied about it after things broke out. But
all that ignores a big, big problem. The Pubs had showed a willingness
to spend a huge amount of our - MY - tax dollars on wild goose chases,
including the Ken Starr fiasco in which they suddenly changed things
around after not being able to nab the prez on the S&L thing, to the
"blue dress BJ". I was just as embarrassed by their actions as I was by
the indiscretion itself.

Just as the Democrats did everything they could to nail Nixon to the
wall. The only difference is that the Dems succeeded with Nixon,
whereas the attempt to oust Clinton failed.

John Kasupskim Tonawanda, New York
Amateur Radio (KC2HMZ), SWL/Scanner Monitoring (KNY2VS)
Member of ARES/RACES, ARATS, WUN, ARRL
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