On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:24:35PM -0500, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> Jay writes:
> > There is no merit to communism. None whatsoever.
> No merit whatsoever, other than it has been a part of American life and
> history from our very beginnings. Shaker, Quaker, Mennonite, Amish and other
> religious communities have practiced a very real form of communism from a time
> before the country was founded until the present. Indeed, engaging in some form of
> communism is essentially dictated if you practice and do devoutly believe in
> any traditional form of Christianity.

This is very much a matter of opinion, as are all things religious. Your
opinion on what constitutes true Christianity is not the only one, nor is it
even in the majority. (I realize that you most likely don't care. That's the
thing about religion: it allows one to define one's views as not only right,
but ordained by God. Feh.)

Personally, I view a religious argument for something as equivalent to a
reasoning person's argument against it; if you can't argue a position
without resorting to the "authority" of a deity, you've already lost.

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