Edward Hassertt wrote:
>
> OK lets blast people for being elitist and then end the post with an elitist
> claim. George you post was as unhelpful and worthy of the trash bin as
> usual.
[Hammond]
You sound like a real bigshot telling it to me. Why don't you tell it
to the Moslems, bigshot?
>
> Edward Hassertt
> Youth Minister
> Christ Episcopal Church
> Puyallup, Washington
> http://www.reasonbyfaith.org
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Hammond" <ghammond@mediaone.net>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:54 PM
> Subject: Gloree gloree halaluuulyaaa.... gloree gloreee halaluuulyaa
>
> > [Hammond]
> > I was watching the Church service at the National Cathedral
> > today in Washington... watching George Bush Sr. and Jr., Bill
> > Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Dick Gephart,
> > Donald Rumsfeld, and hundreds of other of our nations leaders
> > singing...
> >
> > "Gloree gloree halaluuulyaa..
> > Gloree gloree halaluuulyaa..
> > Gloree gloree halaluuulyaa..
> > .....
> > His truth is marching on...."
> >
> > Somehow, with a major attack by Third World forces underway,
> > the words didn't seem to reverberate through the Cathedral
> > the way they used to when I was a kid.
> > I thought about the fact that all those airplane tickets
> > from Boston to L.A. cost about a thousand dollars apiece, and
> > how many of them were going on vacation to Palm Springs and Hawaii,
> > and how all of them had good 5 and 6 figure jobs with Hi-Tech
> > companies, Computers, Genetics, Financial companies. How many
> > of them were visiting their kids or going to weddings.
> > And I looked around at the people in that Cathedral, everyone
> > of them brought there in air conditioned 2001 automobiles, how
> > most of them lived in million dollar homes... the Clinton's just
> > bought several million dollar homes.. Dick Cheney's income last
> > year was $36-million dollars. I thought about the growing divide
> > between the rich and the poor in the world.
> > And then I thought about Christianity and how it's founded on
> > the Crucifixion of a Third World person... a person from the Middle
> > East... and how this attack was basically by non-Christian people..
> > and the fact that most of the people in the Third World are non-
> > Christian. And I thought about the joker in the Coffee Shop who
> > said they should have put one of those planes through the Supreme
> > Court... referring to the last election.
> > Sure, the terrorists are antisemitic scum... everybody knows it..
> > but they are also fools of history who don't even know what they
> > are doing or what they ae playing with... fact is there are a couple
> > of billion starving wretched non-christian Third World people out
> > there... and not a few in the West and even the U.S. that don't have
> > a high opinion of Bill Gates being worth %35-billion dollars... or
> > the fact that there are 50-SUV's sitting in the local new car dealers
> > lot with window sticker prices of $46,800 on them. Especially when
> > they have to take buses and subways or ride bicycles. The average
> > rent in Boston is now $1,500 a month, and rentals for houses are
> > even higher. And there is no end of people who can afford it, and
> > yet, a sea of people who can't afford it.
> > So, while this "war" is apparently between criminals and law abiding
> > people, we want to be careful... because it can quickly escalate into
> > a war between the rich and the poor. And I detect a definite
> > undercurrent of discontent about all the comfortable high paid
> > people in the the U.S. Government these days who seem to be a heck of
> > a lot better off than the average guy in this country.. to say nothing
> > about the less than average guy.
> > Christianity has always had the moral upper ground against the infidels
> > in the Third World... but it may be less today than it was in the past.
> > Antisemitism, the Holocaust, etc. is a very big black mark on
> Christianity.
> > So is the history of Slavery for that matter. Oh sure, you can say it's
> > the gridlock between Democracy and Communism that is killing the
> > Third World people... but in the end, what they tend to look at is who's
> > got the money.. who's getting rich off it. I see an awful lot of fat
> > cats in the U.S. and well heeled Yuppies walking around. It seems
> > like Hi-Tech and Computers, Genetics and the Stock Market is doing
> > more to produce millionaires in the U.S. and Europe than anything else..
> > it sure doesn't seem to be geared to liberating the third World from
> > centuries of bondage in poverty.
> > The U.S. during WWII demonstrated a will to save the World, but that
> > resolve seems to have faded away in recent history... I think now, there
> > has been a reminder that we will not be allowed to just sit here and
> > make money..... that someone will remind us that we are part of the
> > bigger picture and that we do have a global mission to fulfill, like it
> > or not, and there can be no peace ultimately as long as 2/3's of the
> > World lives in destitute poverty and subjugation.
> > I have worked hard to produce a scientific proof of God which will help
> > to ameliorate all of this Global discord, but as usual the press of
> > human events is going to move forward first, and apparently we are
> > witnessing it now. In the meantime, to sit and listen to "Gloree gloree
> > halaluuuyaa" and listen to religious people debate how many words are in
> > the Bible seems to simply underscore the liability of hypocracsy which
> > is about to come crashing down around our ears like the World Trade
> > Center.
> > My scientific proof of God has been ridiculed and ignored from one
> > end of the (Christian) Internet to the other. Pious Christian
> > technocrats and stuff shirts have opposed me at every turn... what do
> > you propose to do, wait for the Taliban to publish it?
> >
> > --
> > Be sure to visit my website below
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > George Hammond, M.S. Physics
> > Email: ghammond@mediaone.net
> > Website: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/index.html
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
-- Be sure to visit my website below ----------------------------------------------------------- George Hammond, M.S. Physics Email: ghammond@mediaone.net Website: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/index.html -----------------------------------------------------------
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