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To: donh
And if we're going back to that, than I'll remind you that I still don't seem to have an answer to the question of whether the Golden Rule prevails over a Commandment or vice versa?

I haven't forgotten your question - as I said earlier, it's complicated because I don't think the question can be answered without making it a long essay that adequately provides the background and justification for the answer. Time is a problem for me right now as I'm taking a few days of vacation with out of town visitors but sometime when I get a chance I'll tackle it.

731 posted on 06/29/2005 6:47:33 AM PDT by Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...
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To: Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...
it's complicated because I don't think the question can be answered without making it a long essay that adequately provides the background and justification for the answer.

...in other words, so you can fuss and fiddle with the common meaning of words, by plucking irrelevant passages from the bible into a Rube Goldberg contraption of an argument that beats the obvious truth into a quivering lump of meaningless jello, like a good jesuit.

I would have thought questions concerning the approximately dozen fundamental guidelines for moral behavior provided by the bible wouldn't require a gaggle of lawyers to understand, unless God is the sort of mischievious, malicious prankster who would order a father to kill a son.

734 posted on 06/29/2005 9:31:19 AM PDT by donh
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