Christian Anti-Communism Crusade

[John Bevilaqua]

Christian Anti-Communism Crusade

An aggressively anticommunist evangelical organization, the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC) was founded in Waterloo, Iowa, by Dr. Fred C. Schwarz in 1953. (3,6,14) In its promotional brochures, the CACC is described as a nonprofit, tax-exempt educational organization which is committed to the battle against communism and devoted to the spread of the Christian religion. (3,6) Now based in Long Beach, California, CACC sponsors "antisubversive" seminars in the United States and overseas. (3,10)

It produces publications, holds rallies, and organizes lectures, debates, and forums at universities, all with the aim of providing information about the "philosophy, morality, organization, techniques, and strategy of communism and related forces." It usually works with local citizens' committees and has supported anticommunist projects in a number of countries worldwide. (10)

Funding:The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade has received financial support from the Pew Memorial Trust ($30,000 in 1969, $25,000 in 1972, $45,000 in 1974, $50,000 in 1977, and $65,000 from l977-78), the Berry Foundation ($1,400 from 1969-78). (6) CACC has also received funds from the Schick razor company, Richfield Oil, and the Lilly Endowment. (38)

Activities: In its efforts to disseminate its analysis of communism, the CACC conducts seminars and other public forums, transmits anticommunist radio and television broadcasts, and distributes literature, audio and video tapes, bumper stickers, pamphlets, books, and its newsletter to a variety of audiences. (3,l9,30,32) Seminar participants and targeted groups include teachers, students, military officers and soldiers, church leaders, business and government leaders, professional people, and recruits from CACC radio broadcasts. (20,21,30) The Crusade has also supported national anticommunism workers who are recruited and instructed by the CACC and are supplied with literature, tapes, tape recorders, and essential support. (23)

Orphans and neglected children have been supported by the Crusade which has offered child sponsorships to help cover its costs. CACC has provided food, clothing, shelter, education, and religious instruction for such children in India. (23)

The organization translates its materials into Spanish and local dialects in order to make them accessible to different populations. (27) Considered by some to be the most active of the "old" religious right groups in Central America, the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade has no Central American branches, but conducts anticommunist seminars and distributes literature and tapes through evangelical groups. (1,9) It has conducted seminars in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica which have been well-received not only by the evangelical pastorate but also by government officials in each country. (3,9) The Costa Rican police as well as the Salvadoran and Guatemalan armies have distributed CACC literature to their members, and the organization has reported positive responses from the National Alliance of Evangelicals in El Salvador, the Ministerial Alliance of Costa Rica, and two officers from the Salvadoran Department of Psychological Warfare. (9)

CACC has held seminars on the theory and strategy of communism for the Honduran Air Force Aviation Military Academy and with senior officers of the Honduran military. (21) CACC began working in El Salvador in about l983. In addition to its seminars and radio broadcasts, it has distributed literature, made telecasts, and set up a fund to provide artificial limbs for the victims of landmines. Members of the CACC team, including John Whitehall, Peter Padro, and James Colbert, held conferences with Salvadoran military leaders and were complimentary of the military's greater attention to psychological warfare. The team members were asked for CACC study material by the commander of the Arce Battalion who said he would like to make those study guides the official course for his forces. (30) On a trip to El Salvador in l986, the group made a radio broadcast on Radio Imperial. The station had been broadcasting CACC recorded anticommunist messages three or four times a day for the previous two years. (30)

The CACC has held a number of seminars and conferences in the Philippines and supports a national anticommunist worker there. A conference was held between a Crusade team, led by John Whitehall, and senior officers of the Philippines military in l986. The Defense Ministry of the country arranged a series of seminars for CACC. Most of the participants consisted of members of the Committees for Peace and Order who have organized in all of the administrative districts of the Philippines. (36,37)

The CACC has sent its newsletters to all members of the U.S. Congress and the Cabinet, many state legislators, newspaper editors and columnists, and university and college libraries. (3) It has also sent newsletters to the president of the United States and his staff, the Canadian Parliament, all Supreme Court justices, many federal, state, and municipal judges, all state governors, and the news directors of radio and TV stations. (4) "The Communist Mind" pamphlet is testimony of Dr. Schwarz before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, May 29, 1957. (3)

In addition to the outreach mentioned above, the group has been known to mail letters to graduating U.S. college seniors warning them of the perils of communism. (5) At the Congreso Hispano conference organized by evangelist Alberto Mottesi in July l988, CACC had a table with literature. (7)

Christian Anti-Communism Crusade literature combines religious and political themes in an analysis of Marxism and international affairs. Drawing on Marxist publications, speeches, and newspaper articles, Schwarz, Whitehall, and other CACC luminaries attempt to show logically that Marxism demands repression, persecution, and even physical elimination of certain subgroups within communist societies. (18,19) The organization downplays the probability of nuclear war, claiming that communism is powerful enough without it and that MarxistLeninist regimes count on "External encirclement, plus internal demoralization, plus thermonuclear blackmail" to achieve the "progressive surrender" of the West. Western democracies, according to CACC, have been paralyzed by their fear of nuclear war into allowing Soviet-communist expansion. (21)

The organization has identified AIDS as a result of the "legality, respectability and growth of the homosexual movement." The spread of AIDS and of the acceptance of homosexuals, says the group, contributes to the "demoralization" of the United States and thus plays into communist hands. (22)

CACC advocates that the United States support anticommunist insurgent forces which are fighting communist regimes. (28) Countries in which CACC has supported national anticommunist workers include India, the Philippines, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Argentina, and Kenya. (31) In its analysis of South Africa, CACC says virtually nothing about the oppression of apartheid. Instead it argues that the African National Congress and various black anti-apartheid leaders are controlled or influenced by communist groups. (32) The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade has identified the following countries as among those that communism must conquer in order to achieve its plan of the encirclement of the United States: Cuba, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and South Africa. (34)

CACC offers a "What Is Communism" correspondence course which takes from three to six months to complete. In its seminars, CACC teams occasionally explain the free market capitalist system, focusing on its advantages. (35)

Government Connections: "The Truth About Communism" film series was narrated by former President Ronald Reagan while governor of California, as was the film "Ultimate Weapon," about the brainwashing of American soldiers in Korea. (3)

CACC often presents seminars to and has conferences with members of governments and military forces (see Activities). CACC has worked closely with the Salvadoran military.

According to Christian Right expert Sara Diamond,"With help from the Salvadoran military, Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian AntiCommunist Crusade blares its virulent propaganda on government radio stations." CACC was also provided with a Salvadoran military helicopter to drop anti-communist literature over zones controlled by the FMLN guerrillas. (38)

CACC has conducted seminars in the Philippines in cooperation with the Defense Ministry of the Philippines. (38)

Private Connections: Seminar faculty have included Walter Judd, Dr. Stefan Possony of the Hoover Institute on War and Peace, Dr. Joseph Dunner of Yeshiva University, Juanita Castro (Fidel's sister), Marion Miller and Herbert Philbrook (former FBI counterspies), Eugene Lyons (senior editor, Reader's Digest), Charles Rice (professor of law, Notre Dame), James D. Atkinson (Georgetown University), John W. Drakeford (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary), Raymond A. Joseph, J. D. Bales, Serafin G. Menocal, Rev. James D. Colbert, Rev. Raymond J. De Jaegher, and David N. Rowe (Yale). (3)

CACC has received favorable comments from Ambassador De Lesseps S. Morrison (ambassador to OAS), Billy Graham, and William Buckley. (3)

Dr. Aradom Tedla has participated in a CACC seminar team to South Africa. (32) Jose Roig and the Rev. Juan Korszyk have also participated in Crusade teams. (33,37)

In the CACC newsletter of Aug l, l988, there was included a summary of the status of the Christic Institute's lawsuit against Gen. John Singlaub and an appeal for encouragement and support for his cause. (8)

In the Philippines, the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade is in a networking relationship with the Intl Christian Outreach and Relief Services (INCOR), Baptist Bible Fellowship Intl, Baptist Mid-Missions, the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, and the Intl Baptist Missionary Fellowship. (11)

Walter Judd is on the natl advisory board of the American Freedom Coalition, an organization with financial and leadership ties to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and its offshoots. (12,13)

Each of the following CACC supporters and officers have attended conferences of or been members of the World AntiCommunist League (WACL) or one or both of its U.S. branches (American Council for World Freedom or the U.S. Council for World Freedom): Fred Schwarz, Walter H. Judd, Stefan Possony, and Billy James Hargis. (15)

At one time, Billy James Hargis headed the Christian AntiCommunist Crusade. He has been head of another rightwing group, the Christian Crusade, since its founding in l948 and has run anticommunist training schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (15,16)

Walter Judd, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota, used to chair the Committee of One Million. Along with Fred Schwarz and Stefan Possony, Judd was a member of the first U.S. branch of WACL, known as the American Council for World Freedom (ACWF), which was set up in l970. (15) He is now on the national committee of the Council for the Defense of Freedom, as are both Schwarz and Possony. (17)

In the early l970s, Possony was author of a report on the Mexican chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, known popularly as the Tecos. In that report, Possony, a long-time League member who had successfully pushed for ACWF affiliation with the international group, noted the neo-Nazi links of the Tecos as well as their anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. He did not, however, recommend either that the U.S. branch leave WACL or that WACL disaffiliate the Mexican chapter. Possony left the League in l975 because of the Tecos, and the ACWF itself collapsed in the same year following the exposure of WACL's fascist elements by the British chapter. But he returned to the League in l98l--before the Tecos were finally ousted--when the new U.S. branch, the U.S. Council for World Freedom, was set up. (15)

Schwarz describes Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media-an offshoot of the Council for the Defense of Freedom--as a friend. (19)

In India, the CACC has worked with the Indian Christian Crusade to support orphans and neglected children. (23)

CACC has conducted anticommunist seminars in South Africa in conjunction with an evangelistic group known as United Christian Action. (24)

CACC has promoted the work of the Puebla Institute's Humberto Belli, author of volumes critical of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Belli is reputed to have relied on CIA assistance for the publication of his first book on religion in postrevolutionary Nicaragua. (25,26)

CACC delivered a presentation called "Cover-Up of Plans for Conquest" to an Accuracy in Media conference. (29)

According to a CACC newsletter, General Ramos, then-deputy commander of the Philippines army, kept a copy of Schwarz's "You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)" on his bedside table during the insurrection which led to the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos. (29)

CACC has supported the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, a conservative labor organization that receives funds from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). NED is a grantmaking institute funded by Congress to support private organizations in foreign countries. (38,39,40) The labor organization also receives funding and other support from the Asian-American Institute for Free Labor Development, an arm of the AFL-CIO that is primarily funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development but that also receives funding from NED. (39,40)

Vice-president of CACC, Dr. John Whitehall, along with Humberto Belli (author of Nicaragua: Christians Under Fire) gave a presentation to 300 personnel managers in the Philippines telling them: "The capitalists have to unite and organize to fight communism."(38)

Sara Diamond relates, "According to the Philippine Council of Churches, Whitehall has provided cash, travel expenses and literature to paramilitary death squads throughout the Philippines."(38)

Misc: CACC's interests extend beyond anticommunist battles in the third world. The August l988 newsletter suggested that readers request from CACC a publication by Brian F. McNamee, M. D. and Lawrence J. McNamee, M. D. : "AIDS, The Nation's First Politically Protected Disease."(8)

A 1963 study of CACC supporters showed that more than half had college degrees and over 40 percent had incomes over $10,000 in 1963 dollars. (38)

Comments: United Christian Action, P. O. Box 35 737, 0l02 Menlo Park, Pretoria, South Africa. (32)

U.S. Address: P. O. Box 890, 227 E. 6th St., Long Beach, CA 9080l-0890

Edited October 30, 2007 by John Bevilaqua

[Tim Gratz]

And your evidence that this organization or any of its members had anything to do with the Kennedy assassination is?

[John Simkin]

And your evidence that this organization or any of its members had anything to do with the Kennedy assassination is?

I disagree.

John Singlaub and Billy James Hargis have both been associated with the JFK assassination:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhargis.htm

In the CACC newsletter of Aug l, l988, there was included a summary of the status of the Christic Institute's lawsuit against Gen. John Singlaub and an appeal for encouragement and support for his cause. (8)

At one time, Billy James Hargis headed the Christian AntiCommunist Crusade. He has been head of another rightwing group, the Christian Crusade, since its founding in l948 and has run anticommunist training schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (15,16)

[Tim Gratz]

John, I just read your section (page) on Hargis.

I saw not a scintilla of evidence linking him to the assassination.

Edited October 30, 2007 by Tim Gratz

[Tim Gratz]

Hargis was forced to resign his offices due to sexual misconduct.

Instrumental in forcing his resignation was Rev. David A Noebel. Can you imagine when Dr. Noebel discovered that Hargis had had biblical "knowledge" of both the man and the woman he had just married? Of course, I know what I would do if the pastor who married me had asked to borrow my wife!

I met Dr. Noebel when he was a minister on my home town of Madison, WI. A strong conservative, Dr Noebel is an intellectual and not a "kook". As well, of course, as a man of integrity, unlike Hargis.

From Wikipediia on Dr. Noebel:

He was pastor of Grace Bible Church, Madison, Wisconsin.

Edited October 30, 2007 by Tim Gratz

[Tim Gratz]

I now read your article on Singlaub. Clearly he knew some of the people who have been considered suspects in the assassination but such association is clearly not sufficient to "link" or "associate" him with the assassination--unless, John, you are adoptimg the tactics of a great American patriot who served as a Senator from my home state and was well regarded by both JFK and his father.

[Tim Gratz]

Anti-Communism was important to Christians because of course Communists persecuted Christians as well as Jews. No freedom of religion in a Communist state.

Now assume you were a Christian in the US after it had been taken over by Communists. You are being forced to enter one of three rooms. First room is all metal with a furnace burning at more than 300 hundred degrees. Second room has a dozen blood-thirsty Communist criminals armed with knives and semi-automatics. Third room has a half dozen lions who had not eaten in three years.

After a brief prayer, the Lord will tell you which room to enter.

So what does the Lord tell you?

[John Bevilaqua]

And your evidence that this organization or any of its members had anything to do with the Kennedy assassination is?

I disagree.

John Singlaub and Billy James Hargis have both been associated with the JFK assassination:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhargis.htm

In the CACC newsletter of Aug l, l988, there was included a summary of the status of the Christic Institute's lawsuit against Gen. John Singlaub and an appeal for encouragement and support for his cause. (8)

At one time, Billy James Hargis headed the Christian AntiCommunist Crusade. He has been head of another rightwing group, the Christian Crusade, since its founding in l948 and has run anticommunist training schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (15,16)

John, you are right on the money again with Rev. Billy James Hargis...

He was part of the Anti-Communist Liaison Committee of Correspondence along with none other than

one of the "Gang of Five" from the American Security Council, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, Alexander Rorke who was very close to the Interpen anti Castro crowd, Edward Hunter the author of "Brainwashing" who was also

featured in The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon in 1958 and that Right Wing journalist Sarah

MacLendon who attended a JFK Conference in the 1990's and tried to ply me for information about Willoughby

before I even knew who she was in fact. She knew all about me though and tried to figure out how I had

figured out that Willoughby was involved.

I mean at least 3 or 4 major researchers have pinned Willoughby's ears back on his role in the JFK hit.

Maybe we should get a copy of "Brainwashing" for those deflectors and agents provocateur's here who

INSIST that Willoughby and Hargis and the far right wing had nothing to do with the JFK hit. And the new

evidence about some of the independent Interpen crowd's involvment with the JFK hit is growing daily.

And both the JFK hit and the JFK coverup utilized Brainwashing and MKULTRA as the main blackmail ploy

invoved with those from the CIA who wanted a full investigation. I still think that Oswald and Robt Emmett

Johnson underwent programmed assassin brainwashing in either Taiwan like Oswald, Minsk, Belorussia (like Stashinsky),

or Tsingtao, China like Robt Emmett Johnson.

Methinks our Resident Right Wing Wackos are here just to deflect the roles played by the Right Wing in the

JFK hit. What better evidence than this nexus of cronies. I think Hargis even took over Rev. Gerald Winrod's

operations in Wichita, KS. Winrod was the "Jayhawk Nazi" during WW II and ran American Mercury for

a while from his Wichita offices.

[John Simkin]

John, I just read your section (page) on Hargis.

I saw not a scintilla of evidence linking him to the assassination.

This part of the forum and my website on the JFK assassination, feature researchers who have written about the case. Hargis definitely falls into this category. This is an extract of an article that he wrote for the Weekly Crusader (6th December, 1963):

It may be difficult for my readers to understand my fear upon hearing the right-wing accused of participation in President Kennedy’s death. May I assure you, as one who has gone through a hate campaign directed at me by the liberals and left-wing element, and having seen the degree to which they will go to destroy anyone who stands in their way, my heart told me that their hatred knew no limitations and their vengeance knows no bounds.

I know - and you know - that no true conservative in the United States would stoop to taking the law into his own hands. I know - and you know - that any man who would assassinate the President of the United States, in these days when we still have "due process of law," would not be a conservative or a patriot, but an anarchist. I hold them in the same contempt that I hold the Communists or any man who would go beyond the law to achieve an end. In my thinking, the end never justifies the means.

Conservatives stand for law. We preach obedience to the law. For that reason, we opposed the racial demonstrators who took the law into their own hands and carried on racial agitations, defying state and local laws, without regard to "due process of law." My main criticism of the racial agitators is the fact that they have no regard for the law - that they go beyond the law in an emotional period of American history to accomplish their end. No American - no minority group - no majority group - can ever justify breaking the law to accomplish their self-justified goals.

You would have to lead an Anti-Communist Movement to know what the liberals are capable of - the hatred, incriminations, intimidations and coercion they constantly throw at the leaders of the anti-Communist cause. I cannot describe adequately the heartache and persecution heaped upon any leader of an anti-Communist movement by the liberal left-wing. With unlimited finances, and being in control of the national media - television, radio and publications - they can destroy a man without any shrug of conscience or regard for ‘due process of law.’ It is this lawless spirit that is preached by the Communists, and practiced by far too many liberals that we oppose.

He then went onto write the book, The Far Left (1964) where he argued that the KGB and the American Communist Party tried to place the blame on right-wing organizations for the assassination. You of course follow in this tradition. The book included the following passage:

The entire left-wing movement is of the devil. As Christians, the first way in which we can recognize the devil and his presence is that he is a xxxx. He speaks lies, he uses lies, his conspiracy is built on lies. Hear the words of Jesus and His controversy with the Jews: “Why do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a xxxx and the father of it, and because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” What are the lies that are confronting the American people today as a result of this internal Communist conspiracy, and in connection with this murder of the President of the United States?

The first lie is that there is no conspiracy, that the Communist conspiracy does not exist, and there are not thousands upon thousands of trained Communist agents in this country today, some of them trained, as Lee Harvey Oswald obviously was, to be expert killers. The murder of the President of the United States was one of the most skillful acts of killing imaginable and could have been accomplished only by great training, and now the facts show that Oswald received such training inside the Soviet Union, while he lived there as a citizen.

It is a lie hatched in hell that the so-called “right-wing extremists” are guilty of the murder of the President of the United States. That lie was put out as official Communist Party propaganda in the first flash of Tass News Agency in Moscow as reported in this country within minutes after the President was killed. Tass, the Russian Communist News Agency, said it was believed that “right-wing extremists” were responsible for the murder of the President, and specifically branded General Edwin A. Walker as being one of those guilty.

[John Bevilaqua]

John, I just read your section (page) on Hargis.

I saw not a scintilla of evidence linking him to the assassination.

This part of the forum and my website on the JFK assassination, feature researchers who have written about the case. Hargis definitely falls into this category. This is an extract of an article that he wrote for the Weekly Crusader (6th December, 1963):

It may be difficult for my readers to understand my fear upon hearing the right-wing accused of participation in President Kennedy's death. May I assure you, as one who has gone through a hate campaign directed at me by the liberals and left-wing element, and having seen the degree to which they will go to destroy anyone who stands in their way, my heart told me that their hatred knew no limitations and their vengeance knows no bounds.

I know - and you know - that no true conservative in the United States would stoop to taking the law into his own hands. I know - and you know - that any man who would assassinate the President of the United States, in these days when we still have "due process of law," would not be a conservative or a patriot, but an anarchist. I hold them in the same contempt that I hold the Communists or any man who would go beyond the law to achieve an end. In my thinking, the end never justifies the means.

Conservatives stand for law. We preach obedience to the law. For that reason, we opposed the racial demonstrators who took the law into their own hands and carried on racial agitations, defying state and local laws, without regard to "due process of law." My main criticism of the racial agitators is the fact that they have no regard for the law - that they go beyond the law in an emotional period of American history to accomplish their end. No American - no minority group - no majority group - can ever justify breaking the law to accomplish their self-justified goals.

You would have to lead an Anti-Communist Movement to know what the liberals are capable of - the hatred, incriminations, intimidations and coercion they constantly throw at the leaders of the anti-Communist cause. I cannot describe adequately the heartache and persecution heaped upon any leader of an anti-Communist movement by the liberal left-wing. With unlimited finances, and being in control of the national media - television, radio and publications - they can destroy a man without any shrug of conscience or regard for 'due process of law.' It is this lawless spirit that is preached by the Communists, and practiced by far too many liberals that we oppose.

He then went onto write the book, The Far Left (1964) where he argued that the KGB and the American Communist Party tried to place the blame on right-wing organizations for the assassination. You of course follow in this tradition. The book included the following passage:

The entire left-wing movement is of the devil. As Christians, the first way in which we can recognize the devil and his presence is that he is a xxxx. He speaks lies, he uses lies, his conspiracy is built on lies. Hear the words of Jesus and His controversy with the Jews: "Why do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a xxxx and the father of it, and because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not." What are the lies that are confronting the American people today as a result of this internal Communist conspiracy, and in connection with this murder of the President of the United States?

The first lie is that there is no conspiracy, that the Communist conspiracy does not exist, and there are not thousands upon thousands of trained Communist agents in this country today, some of them trained, as Lee Harvey Oswald obviously was, to be expert killers. The murder of the President of the United States was one of the most skillful acts of killing imaginable and could have been accomplished only by great training, and now the facts show that Oswald received such training inside the Soviet Union, while he lived there as a citizen.

It is a lie hatched in hell that the so-called "right-wing extremists" are guilty of the murder of the President of the United States. That lie was put out as official Communist Party propaganda in the first flash of Tass News Agency in Moscow as reported in this country within minutes after the President was killed. Tass, the Russian Communist News Agency, said it was believed that "right-wing extremists" were responsible for the murder of the President, and specifically branded General Edwin A. Walker as being one of those guilty.

Did he not read the part I posted here about The Anti Communist Liaison Committee of Correspondence?

This included Hargis, Willoughby, Sarah MacLendon and Alexander Rorke plus Edward Hunter the person who coined the phrase Brainwashing and wrote a book of the same name. Is it possible that Hunter's brainwashing techniques have been used successfully on those of the Far Right? Or are they themselves part of the attempted brainwashings?

[Tim Gratz]

I was disappointed that no one responded to my Post #7. You guys are smart. Which room should you enter?

[John Bevilaqua]

Froggy the Gremlin is talking to himself again...

Anti-Communism was important to Christians because of course Communists persecuted Christians as well as Jews. No freedom of religion in a Communist state.

Now assume you were a Christian in the US after it had been taken over by Communists. You are being forced to enter one of three rooms. First room is all metal with a furnace burning at more than 300 hundred degrees. Second room has a dozen blood-thirsty Communist criminals armed with knives and semi-automatics. Third room has a half dozen lions who had not eaten in three years.

After a brief prayer, the Lord will tell you which room to enter.

So what does the Lord tell you?

Go into the 4th room where Froggy the Gremlin is sitting all alone, contemplating his navel... in Shock and Awe.

Hi Ya Kids. Hi Ya. Hi Ya. Hi Ya.

Edited October 30, 2007 by John Bevilaqua

[Tim Gratz]

Typical, John, no real sense of humour.

The Lord would tell you to go to the room with the lions. No problem. If they have not eaten in three years they will all be dead lions!

[John Bevilaqua]

Typical, John, no real sense of humour.

The Lord would tell you to go to the room with the lions. No problem. If they have not eaten in three years they will all be dead lions!

Actually using Survival of the Fittest Analysis, the weakest lion would always be eaten first and the strongest

lions would have consumed him thus surviving to procreate with the cutest female lion and propagating the

species. At the point when you walked in expecting nothing but dead lions you would have been seen as

dinner for four maybe five. And you would have continued the trap set for the next victim.

[Tim Gratz]

Now, now, I had thought of that, but only canines practice cannibalism.

Lions of course belong to the cat family.

Speaking of which, I heard about this spinster teacher living in Homestead, FL whose only love was her ten year old tabby cat. Well, cat got out when she was using a hand-mower on her lawn and she accidentally severed its tail. The cat ran away shrieking in pain but this fast-thinking teacher caught the cat, took the severed tail and the cat, got into her eight year old car and drove as fast as she could to the nearest Wal-Mart.

Edited November 1, 2007 by Tim Gratz