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To: DManA

“Fetters” are either internal or external.
Internal restraints are “imposed” by the individual on himself as a matter of morality and responsibility to God.

External restraints are nothing but force or the threat of deadly violence in order to coerce behavior.

You can try to convince people to comply with the former, and that’s entirely moral, but if/when you fail, and attempt the latter, you’ve become a thief at best and have put yourself in the position of God at worst.


57 posted on 11/26/2013 6:31:55 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
Sure sounds to me like the Pope is calling for State fetters.

" Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control." Your own #60

BTW there is no place on Earth where the straw man he's attacking comes even close to existing.

96 posted on 11/26/2013 10:29:14 AM PST by DManA (rs Jus)
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