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Sir;...The reason people who preach morality disparage the cities has an illustration in the past... The words pagan, and heathen come respectively from Italy and England, as insults to the country people who were the last to give up their religion, because their religion worked for them... The religion of the countryside, the heartland, still works... In small communities people can still guide and correct their own, and if necessary, drive out the scapegoats... All the rest of us have to get along living meaningless lives piling up wealth for others, and getting little enjoyment out of the wealth we can put aside... The Christians of this age are the pagans of the next... It is because they do not recognize the common morality, which has nothing what ever to do with religion, and justly so, because it touches on all human needs for a larger community delivering justice and Liberty to all mankind. No one reading the gospels can see Jesus as an activist, and no activist Christianity should be accepted.. If Christians followed Jesus they would keep to themselves and concentrate on perfection... Just as the establishment Jews of Jesus's day sheparded wealth and power into their own hands, so they weakened their society and encouraged divisions and poverty...Today it is Christians doing this devils work... Out of poverty comes faith, but it is the people who do not put religion first who pay to support the organization and power of religion, -with the taxes they pay which religions refuse... Now, there are still pagans after two thousand years of Christianity and no small number of them infest the churches of this land... They bribe their God with the sacrifices of others to have wealth and power for themselves... Two thousand years from now there will still be Christians, but then, there were Christians two thousand years before Christ... I say this knowing that Christ was a human God recognizing the human needs of human beings, and if one can do but that, -recognize that human needs bind us one to another, then God becomes a quaint reminder of past predjudice... All of us know that if Jesus returned today, Christians would have him dead tomorrow. ..Until they can do justice, they should not claim rights, but having rights, they should do justice...Thanks...Sweeney