Re: virus: Re: virus-digest V1 #115

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:12:27 -0600 (CST)


On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, XYZ Customer Support wrote:

> >From: brandon stewart <rostewa2@vt.edu>

> >Perhaps this is why Christians insist on letting people "make their
> >own" choice when choosing their faith.
>
> You must be thinking of some other religion. It was the Christians
> who first invented the high-pressure sales tactics in order to win
> (read: force) converts. They called it evangelism and it was so
> successful that it resulted in Christianity being called an official
> religion of an empire in less than 300 years after it's inception.

?????

That describes when Christianity went defunct.

Some other source inflicted this exotoxic meme on the Christian meme-set,
and effectively crippled it for over 12 centuries. Some branches are
still crippled today.

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