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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 5, 1985
that has crept over the West since 1945 has been accompanied by
cowardice and cruelty, the hallmarks of the soft. It's no acci
dent that the same states that refuse to put a murderer to death
have generally been ready to encourage the murder of unborn inno
cents. Morality has been stood on its head in the name of compas
sion••••
Probably what the world is witnessing in this century is the
death of a civilization•••• The [ world] wars were not entirely
responsible for this, though without them life could probably
have been maintained. What was begun by murder is now being com
pleted by suicide [ a reference, perhaps, to the famous book about
liberalism, James Burnham's THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST].
Major
military confrontation between communism and democracy has been
rendered less probabl� by the threat of nuclear annihilation,
and, as the West· continues to decline, conflict becomes less ne
cessary for a decision.
The heirs of Christendom have become
more materialistic than the dialectical materialists, and are
therefore less vital and less able to sustain life. The East can
afford to sit by our sickbed for a time, secure in the knowledge
that softness and corruption are the harbingers of death.
It should come as no surprise that a culture that slaps criminals on the
wrist would have difficulty in knowing how to deal with international crim
inals such as hardened terrorists.
�-Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau