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Tuesday, July 29, 2003

I meant to post this message from the abortion thread on christianity.com. Sometimes the way christians think is downright miraculous:
[Arthur R:] "What God has joined,let no man seperate." Math.19:6,Mark 10:9. That includes a baby(fetus) with it's mother. And any cells joined together (even a human fetus hours old)are joined by God ,not to be destroyed or seperated.They are a sacred thing. Albert Einstien regreted assisting in revealing the knowledge of how to split the atom.He realized too late the error of seperating what God has joined. That simple act created the most devestating weapon of mass destruction on Earth,just as seperating a fetus from its mother destroyed over 40,000,000 children in America alone since Roe vs. Wade.
I attempted a respectful reply to this on the thread, but it was deleted. I therefore don't feel bad about proposing this alternative, more amusing, reply:
Einstein himself had little role in the atomic bomb project. The bomb was ultimately developed at the insistence of the president and military of the United States (a Christian nation). It is true that Jews are a sinful lot who have caused all sorts of maladies over the centuries due to their refusal to convert to Christianity (even when tortured!). But in this particular case the Jew was somehow not to blame.
I realize this reply would be something of a non-sequitor, but so was the original message. I'm also aware that fundamentalist christians today consider themselves somehow allied with conservative jews. But I wouldn't want christianity to get separated from its long history of violent anti-semitism. After all, "what god has joined, let no man separate."

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