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- From: altheimm@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Murray Altheim)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: Noriega (was Re: Dodd and Gandi)
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.04.09.01.1993.17500@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 09:09:02 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu
- Organization: California State University Sacramento
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- Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- In article <Jan.20.00.09.40.1993.818@geneva.rutgers.edu>
- gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) writes:
- >In this month's Christianity Today there was a brief article on Manuel
- >Noriega's conversion. It seems that it is sincere. I remember when I
- >first heard about this, a year or two ago, I was hoping that it would
- >be.
- >
- >I think in instances like this, we can only stand amazed at the way
- >God can reach people we would never expect, detestable people, and
- >how, as the bible says, there is more joy in heaven over one sinner
- >who repents than over ninety and nine who need no repentance.
- >
- >-Fred
-
- My only response to this has no basis in personal research, just obser-
- vations and opinions, but I just wanted to add that before judging
- Noriega, it would do one well to understand that he, too, was a good
- friend of the US like Sadaam Hussein. And I don't think we'll ever get
- the real story of the relations between the US and Noriega/Hussein. I
- for one believe that US interests before and after the breakoff in
- relations have a great deal to do with how we are lead to describe him
- both from the White House and in the press.
-
- It always strikes my somewhat like the constant shuffling of friends and
- enemies like Eastasia and Eurasia (or whatever it was) in Orwell's 1984.
-
- Murray
-
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- Murray M. Altheim "Ils ont l'orteil de Bouc, & d'un Chevreil l'oreille,
- Instructional Consultant La corne d'un Chamois, & la face vermeille
- CSU, Sacramento Comme un rouge Croissant: & dancent toute nuict
- altheimm@csus.edu Dedans un carrefour, ou pres d'une eau qui bruict."
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