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Subject: 94-04-18-15: Re: International Buddhist Conspiracy

I have to share this with everyone.  It ran in the Williamson County
Sun, a local paper in Williamson County, TX.

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    "Protecting their ancestors, the bugs"

         It was encouraging to read your editorial "Endangered
    Rights" in the March 16 issue of the _Sun_.  I couldn't agree
    with you more, however, from a different perspective.  I have a
    quiz for you.  Can you identify the source of the following
    quotes?

         "Man is a product of his environment."
         "One must be able to love the meanest of creation as
    oneself."
         "...nonviolence to living beings..."
         Do not till "the soil lest it harm even the tiniest of
    living things."
         "The earth is the mother of us all."
         "Mother Earth."
         "Earth first."
         "Some things are more important than humans."
         "Non-animal food."
         "...trees, rocks, rivers, mountains.  All are sacred."
         "...hurt to living things."
         "...uphold nature as your guide."
         "Water benefits all things..."

         Give up?  Sounds as though they came from an article written
    by an environmentalist, but they didn't.  With the exception of
    two of them they came from a book published by National
    Geographic Society entitled _Great Religions of the World_,
    published in 1971.  Also, they came from the section on Buddhism.

         The environmental laws we are passing at city, county, state
    and national levels are far too similar to the tenants of
    Buddhism to be coincidental.  I am unerringly being drawn to the
    conclusion that my tax dollars are being used to establish a
    national religion.  Congress is to pass no laws establishing a
    state mandated religion.  We seem to be doing this in the name of
    enviornmentalism.

         Many environmentalists will deny this because they,
    obviously, are not Buddhist.  They are also, obviously, unaware
    of the eastern religionist's political agenda.  "That is why my
    devotion to truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I
    can say...in all humility, that those who say that religion has
    nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means."
    Mahatma Gandhi, quoted from his autobiography in the National
    Geographic Society book.

         It seems to me that these religious environmentalists have
    infiltrated almost every agency and special interest group that
    has anything to do with our environment, and are slowly but
    surely establishing their political agendas to benefit their
    eastern ideologies.  If that is so, they are not interested in
    endangered species.  They are afraid that the little bird or cave
    insect is a reincarnation of one of their ancestors and we are
    placing their "ancestors" on a welfare system in the name of the
    environment.  The _Austin American-Statesman_, March 24, edition
    says we are doing that to the tune of $66 million plus taxpayers'
    dollars for just two birds.

         We do need to protect our environment.  Not only from
    pollution but from developers whose only motivation is greed.
    But to do it by establishing a state religion is a little much.
    Out laws should be based on something more substantial than
    eastern mysticism.

    Donald L. Ledbetter, Pastor
    Heritage Baptist Church


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So what do we think about this?

ERM


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kr2k@darwin.clas.virginia.edu

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