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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:29:57 -0500
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- From: Dr Nancy's Sweetie <kilroy@GBORO.ROWAN.EDU>
- Subject: Three Short Notes
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- Scott Weberg writes:
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- > Dr. Nancy's Sweetie (sometimes known as Darren F. Provine) makes an
- > interesting point: people with liberal (by this I assume he means
- > non-Christian) ideas and liberal moral beliefs must be a majority of
- > the population.
-
- I assert no direct correlation between political ideas and Christianity,
- except where those political ideas include advocating demonstrable genocide
- or other gross injustices. Christians can and do disagree, often strongly,
- about the political implications of the Gospel.
-
- *
-
- John Woolley wrote:
-
- > [T]o imply, as Darren (I think) did, that the current state of the
- > Constitution reflects the current will of a majority of the people is
- > simply absurd.
-
- My comments were not directed to a simple majority, but rather an overwhelming
- majority. Some political rhetoric, especially from preachers, carries with it
- the impression that all the fuss is being caused by two dozen homosexuals in
- New York, and if it wasn't for those few troublemakers everything would be
- fine. Whether politically-conservative Christians are a majority or not, they
- are certainly not an overwhelming majority.
-
- *
-
- With all this talk about obeying the Ten Commandments, I wonder how many
- Christia participants make any effort at keeping the Fourth Commandment,
- which orders abstaining from work on Saturday. Do any of those who seem
- to feel that we should obey the Ten Commandments actually keep all Ten?
-
-
- Darren F Provine / kilroy@gboro.rowan.edu
-