To: risk
Anyway, why would good Christians want to impose their religious convictions on fellow citizens? Only a BAD Christian would NOT want to impose their convictions on everyone. But, I guess you'd have to be a Christian to understand this.
28 posted on
09/01/2003 6:38:19 AM PDT by
Verax
To: Verax
Impose or teach? To me they are two different things.
BTW, you can have good moral character without being a Christian.
To: Verax
Only a BAD Christian would NOT want to impose their convictions on everyone. But, I guess you'd have to be a Christian to understand this. That's not the Christianity I know. But your comment speaks volumes. From M-W.com:
Main Entry: im·pose Pronunciation: im-'pOz Function: verb Inflected Form(s): im·posed; im·pos·ing Etymology: Middle French imposer, from Latin imponere, literally, to put upon (perfect indicative imposui), from in- + ponere to put -- more at POSITION Date: 1581 transitive senses 1 a : to establish or apply by authority <impose a tax> <impose new restrictions> <impose penalties> b : to establish or bring about as if by force <those limits imposed by our own inadequacies -- C. H. Plimpton> 2 a : PLACE, SET b : to arrange (as pages) in the proper order for printing 3 : PASS OFF <impose fake antiques on the public> 4 : to force into the company or on the attention of another <impose oneself on others> intransitive senses : to take unwarranted advantage of something <imposed on his good nature> - im·pos·er noun |
37 posted on
09/01/2003 7:02:08 AM PDT by
risk
To: Verax
Re:"Only a BAD Christian would NOT want to impose their convictions on everyone. But, I guess you'd have to be a Christian to understand this" Sounds like the Pharisees of old. I do not know what religion you are preaching but it is definitely not Jesus teaching.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
51 posted on
09/01/2003 7:45:09 AM PDT by
TheFrog
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