[ArGee]

I looked at #209. You have nothing to apologize for for how well you stated your position, nor for how succinctly.

I read with amazement recently that a case occurred in one of the Islamic nations, I believe it was Pakistan, where a young boy was caught somewhere alone with a young girl. They were walking in a public place, but they did not have a chaperone. This is illegal in that country. The boy's father tried to argue that the boy was too young for there to have been any impropriety but the verdict came in that the boy was guilty. However, the sentencing phase determined that the boy was too young to punish so they would punish the entire family. How? By gang-raping the boy's older sister.

Now I know we're not supposed to pass judgement on other cultures or anything like that, but can you read a story like that and not know that there is no such thing as a universal morality? I will pass judgement and say that there is such a thing as a correct morality, and these people wouldn't know it if it bit them on the a$$. By objective moral authority these people who sentenced this girl to a gang rape for the crime of her brother were wrong, dead wrong, unjustifiably wrong, and worthy of sanction by every other nation on the earth - even if they were following their own laws.

Just like homosexual activity is wrong, not matter what laws we pass in the "civilized world."

Shalom.

[Zack Nguyen]

Argh. What a terrible story. What a brutal blood thirsty culture. I have started thinking about those countries in these terms - if Christians are the seed of Abraham, nations that brutally repress the Christian church have attached themselves to the wrong end of the Abrahamic Covenant. The judgement end.

Thanks for your compliments.