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To: TheOtherOne

If I love God, I will keep His commandments -- of which thse second-most-important commandment is to love my neighbor as myself. I work at #2 because I embrace #1.

I think I already answered your other question, or tried to. It's good that the child-molestor drives the speed limit. He's still a child-molestor, though, isn't he?

Dan


184 posted on 01/26/2005 11:28:10 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr
It's good that the child-molestor drives the speed limit. He's still a child-molestor, though, isn't he?

Of course. But isn't he a child molestor, God believing or not? I would judge him on his actions, not his belief or non-belief in God.

I guess I am not sure I see the point. We both agree, good acts are good acts, and bad acts are bad acts. I do not think a motivating belief in God makes those same acts inherently better or worse - I see the acts themselves as the same regardless of the belief of the actor.

Is not the decision not to abort a fetus morally the same, whether or not motivated by a belief in God?

199 posted on 01/26/2005 11:38:18 AM PST by TheOtherOne
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