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Moral Absolutes Ping.

(Note: My absence of pinging the list to any more Terri Schiavo threads [for now] does not mean my concern - or yours - is in any way diminished or minimized. IMO this case is a huge turning point, either for good or ill; this remains to be seen.)

Here is a situation where God and scripture are the evil enemy. Jurors - citizens performing the duty that the state has demanded they perform - are absolutely prohibited from using God's law to inform the vital decisions they are called upon to make. Citizens performing jury duty is one of the very foundations of a republic such as ours was meant to be.

Now only atheists, secularists, leftists and the like will be allowed to make public decisions and choices. If a religious believer wants to affect the public life, he or she will have to pretend to be an atheist. IOW, believers in God must go in the closet.

This is not only a terrible disgrace, and completely 180 degrees opposite from what the founders of this country intended, but it is not the worst that it will get.

Just today I was discussing with friends how it happened that more Jews did not escape Germany and its occupied countries while they still had a chance. Of course, it was not possible for all to escape, but more could have.

The answer is this: Most thought that "it can't get any worse" as it got worse. They did not want to leave behind families, homes, traditions, some measure of security or comfort, attachments of one kind or another. Some did not want to think that the repression and cruelty could descend into the pit of hell it did. no doubt some did not think that such raw evil could exist.

Well, folks, I think we're in a similar situation. Not only it can get worse, it will.

Unless those of us who want to be on God's side - regardless of religious sectarianism - get some courage and strength to fight evil.

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