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- From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
- Subject: Re: using the bible to advance bigotry
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.145029.23740@news.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE>
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- References: <C07DBw.1oE@math.uwaterloo.ca> <casivils.726097308@node_508ba> <1993Jan4.024856.6491@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 14:50:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.024856.6491@netcom.com> teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger) writes:
- >In article <casivils.726097308@node_508ba> casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (craig sivils) writes:
- >>In <C07DBw.1oE@math.uwaterloo.ca> shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit) writes:
- >>
- >>Whats next, if we can be intolerant toward people for what the beleive but
- >>not what they do, whats next.
- >>
- >>Why is wrong to rob a grave, have sex with animals, children, would it be wrong
- >>to spike a pregnant mothers drink with RU42 (or whatever it is), why is
- >>blackmail wrong and taxation not? Fact is that we have to make moral decisions
- >>and when it comes down to it, you have to assume something. If I choose to
- >>believe the Bible and find it to be a workable basis for me then why don't you
- >>practice some of that toleration
- >>
- >
- >Because you insist that all others must have the same views as you hold and
- >you go to the extreme of trying to legislate them into being. When you and
- >yours stop trying to force your views onto everyone else then the tolerance
- >will be there.
- >
- Please explain why the above statement would not apply equally to any
- group trying to advance it's agenda at the expense of the views of
- others which by your definition above would seem to include all
- minorities with strongly held beliefs. Lots of people try to force
- their views on others, not just Right-Wing religious fanatics.
-
- Pat Robertson and Randall Terry do not represent the views of all Christians.
- Trying to pigeon-hole all Christians as moral legislators ala the Republican
- Christian Right does people like Mother Theresa and Jimmy Carter a great
- disservice.
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