Friday, February 11, 2011

A Strange Idea!

2025 Canyons Resort Drive, T-7

Park City, Utah 84098

February 10, 2010


Senator Orrin G. Hatch

104 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510


Dear Senator Hatch.

Thank you so much for your generous response to my recent letter on "emotional fascism". Following is something I wrote about a year ago during early morning musings when unable to sleep because of troubling thoughts. It is based on my engineering schooling, related to one of those laws of thermodynamics that postulates for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It bothered me that atheistic communism had no restraining god.

Sincerely,




A Strange Idea? (1/08/10)


It occurs to me that the world may have indeed been fortunate that the leaders of the communistic Soviet Union were atheists. This permitted Mutually Assured Destruction to work in preventing atomic destruction. The cold war lasted for 50 years because there was no benefit from mutual destruction.

If Stalin had felt there was a god who would reward him in Paradise for destroying his enemies, he might very well have supported suicide atomic bombing, even with his own demise.

I find it difficult to believe that we can count on finding a way for a similar stalemate with Muslim terrorists. Self destruction (suicide bombing) while killing non-believers (who refuse to be converted) in a religious cause seems to be a positive in their march toward eternity.



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