
By: Jerry Andrews
Re: Another christian victim

NOTE: This message was originally in conference "Church & State      -Fido"
      and was copied here by Robin Murray-o'hair.

I know Christianity is a punishing process, I feel for poor Christians, for
the delusions they put themselves through, the mental torture they inflict
upon themselves.  Oftentimes I forget that Christianity is a form of self-
punishment, self-torture, and that usually the victim is the person
torturing himself.  Christianity always leads to victimization of some
sort, whether to the self or the children or the followers, whoever happens
to be caught in its crossfire at that moment.  And so it is sad when I see
an article such as the one that follows.  Christianity has claimed itself
another victim who, in this case, forced himself to suffer the ultimate
self-punishment, death.  Read on:
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Driver stranded in snow waited 9 weeks in pickup before death Almost safe:
Man never looked for nearby road that led away from the mountain.

By Jeff Barnard
Associated Press

  AGNESS, Ore. -- When DeWitt Finley got stuck in the snow last fall trying
to drive the back roads over the Klamath Mountains, he put his faith in God
and waited with the patience of Job for someone to rescue him.
  For nine weeks, Finley, 56, sat in the cab of the pickup truck, checked
the days off the calender in his salesman's day planner and wrote a stack
of letters in a neat hand on a legal pad to his two sons, his fiancee and
his boss.
  If only he had stepped out of the truck and followed the road back around
a corner, he soon would have found clear pavement leading him down the
mountain to safety.
  Last month, after some teenagers who got stuck themselves discovered
Finley starved to death in his pickup, the people who live in this rugged
country couldn't believe he had just sat there for so long.

Pickup in 5 feet of snow

  The snow "never stays on that road but right there," said Glenn Carpenter
of Gold Beach, who dug Finley's pickup out of 5 feet of snow with a
front-end loader May 22 before going on to open the road for the season.
  Depending on the weather, Finley could have had a few hundred yards or a
few miles of snow to walk through before reaching pavement, Carpenter said.
  But there was no sign he had ever left his truck.
  "I have no control over my life its all in His hands. 'His will be
done,'" Finley wrote his boss in one of the letters found with his body.
"Death here in another month or so, or he sends someone to save me.  Yet
knowing His will I'm at peace and His grace will prevail.  If I'm save to
finish my life here, please know I'll always be thankful to you and remain
your servant.  If not -- I'll see you in Glory."
  Sheriff's detective Allen Boice figures that Finley, having spent most of
his life in Southern California, was in unfamiliar circumstances.

Camper salesman

  In Kalispell, Mont., he got a job as a salesman for S & S Campers, began
building a house on a golf course and made plans to get married.
  He was on a sales trip through Oregon, hauling a camper on the back of a
four-wheel-drive diesel pickup, when he decided Nov. 14 to leave the main
highway along the coast to take the back roads through the Siskiyou
National Forest to Grants Pass.
  The Bear Camp Road has lots of traffic in the summer, when whitewater
raft- ers on the Rogue River use it to shuttle their rigs from Galice to
Agness.
  But when the snow comes, the U.S. Forest Service doesn't plow it.  One
north-facing stretch at the 4,800-foot summit is generally blocked by snow
all winter.
  The day after Finley drove up, rangers posted a sign at the bottom
reading: "Road may be blocked by snowdrifts six miles ahead."
  Tow-truck driver Everett Amos gets calls to haul people out three or four
times each winter.  Sometimes they call on a cellular phone or CB radio.
Finley had neither.
  Otherwise they walk out, like the teenagers who found Finley on May 20.
It's 16 miles down the mountain, and one more mile to the Cougar lane Store.

Road repairs all winter

  Jim Kelley and his Forest Service road crew worked on the Bear Camp Road
throughout the winter.
  "Once we turned around and were working around the corner from where he
was found -- probably a couple different times when he was alive," Kelley
said.
  After Finley vanished, his boss, Mic Sieler, owner of S & S Campers, sent
out another man to search for him.  Deputies in Coos Bay, Ore., his last
stop, sent up a helicopter.
  Meanwhile, Finley accepted his fate, calmly writing his letters and --
until the end on Jan. 19 -- crossing off the days on his calendar.
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