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1 posted on 11/24/2001 4:22:58 PM PST by Pokey78
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The problem for civil society, as much as for the world’s religions, is to understand the confused and ambiguous margins that separate authentic pluralism (respect for difference on the path to truth) from moral relativism (the view that all beliefs and values are equally meaningless).

This statement makes no sense. Moral relativism is a view that all beliefs and values are equally meaningful - and therefore true for the holder of the values. Pluralism is the belief that no single system or view of reality can be relied upon. Of course, both moral relativism and pluralism defy logic.

2 posted on 11/24/2001 4:36:09 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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Is this guy antinomian?
5 posted on 11/24/2001 5:30:20 PM PST by cornelis
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But the truly efficient mass murderers of the last 100 years have been atheists, nonbelievers.

Atheist mass murderers are a world apart. No one else is even in their league.

6 posted on 11/24/2001 5:30:21 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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Islam, which means “peace”, commands the faithful to “slay not the life that God has made sacred”...

When are these bozos gonna get off this "Islam means peace crapolla?

Islam means submission

8 posted on 11/24/2001 5:39:56 PM PST by P8riot
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Religion has not sat comfortably with secular modernity

...or is it the other way around?

11 posted on 11/24/2001 6:36:23 PM PST by Dumb_Ox
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