Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: the invisib1e hand
"Not postulating that this condones the murder, but, on the other hand, it sort of vaporizes your argument."

No it sorta doesn't. In fact, it very much emboldens it. Whose God are you talking about? The Indian's God(s)? The Muslim God? The God of Rah? The Gods of Asgard?

We AREN'T a theocracy, we're a Republic built out of law. When you start advocating that people start breaking the laws of man for the laws of their God, then you might as rename Washington, Tehran.

No one in THIS country gets to break the laws of the people out of some notion of moral superiority.

29 posted on 01/28/2010 12:33:09 PM PST by OldDeckHand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies ]


To: OldDeckHand
No one in THIS country gets to break the laws of the people out of some notion of moral superiority.

righto. I think the very concept of "law" -- and certainly as it was understood by the founders -- was not rooted in pantheism or moral equivalence.

There was a particular God who inspired the Judeo-Christian structure of western civilization, and you apparently are content to ignore or deny that fact, even as you benefit from it.

44 posted on 01/28/2010 12:40:23 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

To: OldDeckHand
Whose God are you talking about?

Whose God were our forefathers speaking of when they wrote "endowed by the Creator" into the documents upon which our laws are based?

119 posted on 01/28/2010 1:42:28 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

To: OldDeckHand
I guess you would have had no use for John Brown either.

Roeder did what he thought was morally right. You obviously disagree, but I'm not sure your god (be it human reason or whatever) has a superior claim to morality.

Roeder will surely pay the consequences under the law. But it also beyond reasonable dispute that his act saved the lives of innocent children who would have been butchered in the womb in the most savage manner by Roeder. If you find Roeder's murder heinous and immoral, at least be consistent and find Tiller's murders of tens of thousands of the most innocent heinous and immoral.

276 posted on 01/28/2010 4:37:51 PM PST by behzinlea
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson