MY MEETING WITH DAN RATHER

Aish.com ^ | April 21, 2002 | Elliot Mathias

[Tom Jefferson]

Since Arabs view the world differently, who's to say that we're right and they're wrong?

[Tom Jefferson]

Let me know if you want on or off of this list.

[dutchess]

Thanks for this VERY insightful post. Would appreciate being added on to your ping list. Need to email this to a lot of my "less informed" colleagues AND family.

[AnnaZ]

Wow.

[poindexters brother]

Dan Rather and his Producer are Right!

Unfortunately they have reached the logically correct conclusion based on their stated worldview. In the (paraphrased) words of the late Francis Schaeffer,

Without a transcendent moral authority, one that stands outside of our own human experience, then all of morality is relative and what is right or wrong will ultimately be determined by who has the greatest ability to force their definitions of right and wrong on everyone else

It is a sad state of affairs, but if we can not even agree on what the authority is for defining right and wrong we can't even talk with each other about it anymore.

[Revolting cat!]

Sophomores for life these news people are, convinced by the $$ amounts on their paychecks (with the help of the sycophants who surround them, to be sure,) that they are in fact deep thinkers. This is considered the intellectual elite of this country. Sheesh!

[Eva]

It's called moral relativity, a basic premise of the new left philosophy. It allows the alliance with homosexuals, it destroys the family and basicly undermines our whole judicial system which is based on the Judeo-Christian moral code. Organized religion is anathema to the liberal socialists. People who answer to a higher authority are difficult to manage and will never put obediance to the state above all. The liberals are not so much opposed to Israel as they are opposed to the Jewish religion and capitalism. Islam does not pose the same threat because the religion and the state are one.

[Tom Jefferson]

It is a sad state of affairs, but if we can not even agree on what the authority is for defining right and wrong we can't even talk with each other about it anymore.

Can you and I agree that the basis for defining right and wrong is set forth in the 10 Commandments and the Judeo-Christian moral code? If we can, then we have moral absolutism, not moral relativism.

[Cyber Liberty]

That "producer's" mind is so open her brains fell out.

[kayak]

I submit that the producer is a Christian-in-name-only.

God doesn't advocate moral relativity. "Thou shalt not" is an imperative, not an opinion or a request.

[Cyber Liberty]

"Dan Rather and his Producer are Right!"

No, they're not. They simply moved logically from a flawed premise (no absolute right and wrong) to an illogical conclusion.

[Tom Jefferson]

God doesn't advocate moral relativity. "Thou shalt not" is an imperative, not an opinion or a request.

Exactly! That is my point. If one uses as a guide the bible and its moral codes then there is moral absolutism - not moral relativism.

[RAT Patrol]

The big hypocrisy is that they think THEY have moral clarity when the issue is about liberal vs. conservative. All this watery mumbo-jumbo is used only when convenient.

[captain_dave]

I knew Dan Rather was a fool the moment he took over from Walter Cronkite. This confirms it.
The less you know, the more you think you know. The more you know, the less you know you really know. Since Dan thinks he knows so much, he knows rather less than most.
Maybe he changed his original name? Dan KnowsRatherLessThanMostPeople

[OKCSubmariner]

Tom Jefferson's quote in reply #1 of Rather's comments about the Arabs proves to me that Rather has no solid Christian moral foundation. He like many in the media operate only on moral relativism and get tossed to and fro. They really stand for nothing except for the right to stand for nothing.

To paraphrase a famous saying, "if you (Rather) stand for nothing, you (Rather) will fall for anything", even what the Arabs put out.

[lawdude]

"Since Arabs view the world differently, who's to say that we're right and they're wrong?"

In other words, I have no principles, no values, no opinions, no beliefs and no business opening my mouth!

If it looks like a turd, smells like a turd, tastes like a turd, it just might not be a turd DAN! I mean, just who's to say?

Sh** is sh**, even when emanating from the mouth of a droid!

[Tom Jefferson]

The most frustrating part of it is that I don't think Dan Rather, his producer, or any of the other moral relativists who bring the American people the news have any idea that they are standing on moral quicksand.

[edger]

It is a sad state of affairs, but it is also nonsense!

[Nachum]

Repeat after me...

Dan Rather and co. are a bunch of ignorant shmucks.

[stlrocket]

Here's a picture and Dan and his best friend!

MORON DAN AND HIS MENTOR