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They have long hair. They wear beards and sandals.
Sorne
claim to have rejected everything but the basic necessities of
life. They hold up two fingers
in
a "V" to proclaim peace,
almost like a Papal benediction. They talk of "making love,
not war/' and speak of a world where each man is his
brother's keeper. They point out, with stunning accuracy,
many of the hypocrisies of their elders- especially when it
comes to refigion. They cfaim to be gentfe, good, wanting to
do
no
harm. They are the "flower children/' they say, whose
goafs are those of meekness and merey. Often, they speak
of Christ . And they don' t know what they're tafking about.
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Garner Ted Armst rong
I
T'S EASY
to spot hypocrisy. Double
standards are everywhcre. Nations
endowed with the rcligion stem–
ming from thc Judeo-Christian cthic
have fought each othcr with viciousncss
and hate for many centurics.
A World o f Hypocrisy
Mothers who presumably beltcved 1n
the same god and a diffcrent govern–
ment fervently praycd to that god to
grant their boys success in battlc, which
must have been enormously confusing
to whichever god, if any, heard those
impassioned pleas.
A bel iever in Jcsus shooting a
machine gun is as purely hypocrital as a
policy of pcacc through war, success
through cheating, or happy marriages
through adu ltery.
A cynical, turned-off youth easily
spots hypocrisy - in others.
A father tells his teen-agers to stop
smoking pot. But the father who lays
clown this moral edict, puffs away at
cigarettes with the plain statement writ–
ten on the package, "Caution: Ciga–
rettes may be harmful to hcalth."
Mother may be aghast that daughter
likes hard rock, long hair, free "]ove"
and pot, while she, the moral mama,
just got back from a little weekend
adultery.
Added to the general hypocrisy of
our age are the hideous prohlems we all
face. We have the bomb, the population
explosion, the environmental cns•s,
wholesale poisoning of the basic life–
sup port systems. Above all, we havc a
protracted and unfinished war.
In short, our world is
io
a mess.
And youth knows - and knows
it
knows - that it, the youth of the
world,
did
not
make
it
that UJa)'.
Survival in the Nuclear Age
"Be sure to lie clown immediately,
children, whcn you hear the warning
siren. Stay away from the wiodows, and
do not look at the flash, for it can blind
you. Remember, too, that the shock
wave will explode the windows, which
could cut you in two. After the initial
shock wave has passed, we should
quickly, and in order!y manner, descend
into the shelter at the bottom of the
stairs."
These were not the instructions for
the 30's or 40's. Then, teachers
explained how to get out of that upper–
level classroom and clown the stairs, or
into the metal slide in case of fire. In
the old
f
rame classrooms of the 30's,
fire was feared. But in the 50's, and
ever since, it's been "the bomb."
lf
you're over 40, the chances are you
can't understand. You see, you weren't
reared during the age of the bomb.
Your childhood fears were "Japs" and
•'Nazis." Perhaps you even went to war
.tgainst them.
You don't recall classroom petitions
being sent to President Roosevelt, ask–
ing him to "please not press that but·
ton, Mr. President." You weren't a
young adu lt or teen-ager living through
the assassination of a young President,