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To: 4Runner
>> You have cut off my statement to fit your response. Previous posters have addressed the entire statement as it was written. I specifically stated the grouping was Judeo-Christian, not just Christian <<

You have altered Harris' own statement to fit your spin.

Harris didn't say:

"If you're not electing people with a Judeo-Christian ethic, you're going to legislate sin"

She said:

"If you're not electing Christians, you're going to legislate sin"

If she MEANT to say the first version (which I don't agree with anyway), she needs to issue a press release saying so, not talk about how she co-sponcered holocaust memorials.

The phrase "Christian" is not interchangeable with "Judeo-Christian values". If I said "If you're not electing Catholics, you're going to legislate sin", you wouldn't just ASSUME I was also including Protestants who share simular "values" to Catholics.

98 posted on 08/27/2006 4:24:06 PM PDT by BillyBoy (ILLINOIS ELECTION "CHOICES:" Rod Bag-o-$hit or Judas Barf Too-Pinka)
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To: BillyBoy

(1) What Harris is addressing is the problem of atheism fast becoming the "state religion" of our elected officials. I know that, you know that, everyone on this thread knows that. Don't deny it.

(2) As I said earlier, if you read St. Augustine or St. Thomas Acquinas, they address the need for Christians to act pragmatically in the world where not only God but also the devil entwines itself regularly and prominently in human affairs. The point being, according to these theologians, that God expects us to have sufficient knowledge and spirituality to know the damned difference and to act--in events where it is necessary for us to do so--appropriately. That is the problem with atheism. It doesn't know the difference between good and evil. It treats God and Devil the same way.

(3) There is a terrain of fraternal encounter shared by Christians and Jews, which includes shared tenets and rules of behavior. This terrain is broad and is part of our political and cultural fabric. Neither Christians nor Jews countenece atheism.

(4) Your objection to what Harris said is not that it was exclusive of "other religions". Your objection to Harris is that you don't want anyone with religious belief anywhere near the halls of power in Washington. That's what has you torqued.


106 posted on 08/27/2006 4:54:14 PM PDT by 4Runner
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