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To: pcl
Your post contains the same old, tired aguements that have gained very little in the way of acceptance in the last 25 years.

As old G K Chesterton put it, truth is not established by the clock or the calendar. In its heyday, Nazi Germany was the slickest, most scientific, most progressive, most sophisticated nation on earth. You share with the Nazis the view that certain human beings are disposable. Even if the majority of your contemporaries agree with you, you are wrong. Hitler won office through fair elections.

Some principles, like the sanctity of life, are not negotiable. Our holocaust has already claimed at least 4 times as many innocent victims as Hitler's.

But, the slaughter of innocents appears to be perfectly acceptable to you, if the majority approves. I think the Bible calls that condition "a seared conscience." Or, as CS Lewis put it in The Magician's Nephew, if you try hard enough to make yourself stupider than you really are, all too often you will succeed.

332 posted on 12/02/2001 9:50:41 AM PST by TomSmedley
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To: TomSmedley
As old G K Chesterton put it, truth is not established by the clock or the calendar.

Does this mean you still believe it is okay to stone women to death as required in the bible

Does this mean you still believe it is okay for a suspicious husband to subject his wife to a life threatening trial by ordeal to prove her innocence as required in the bible?

I think it means that the truth is realativc to what is convient for you.

335 posted on 12/02/2001 10:01:56 AM PST by pcl
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