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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Rush on the Right?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:39:38 GMT
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- In article <BzJpI0.H6K@ns1.nodak.edu> green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
- >When he brought up the Ten Commandments, he had a valid point. Can you
- >name one other set of principles that would solve ALL the world's problems
- >better, if everyone just believed in them?
-
- Sure I can.
-
- As it harm none, do as thou wilt.
-
- That's much more comprehensive than the Ten Commandments,
- which teach the wickedness of working every seventh day (Omigod!
- Laziness!!) and also of making statues of _anything_.
-
- And are you willing to throw out the rest of the Bible?
- Consider that the conquest of the "Promised Land" was accompanied by
- the Israelites murdering and stealing on a massive scale, and Jesus
- Christ fatally weakened the Sabbath one. Prohibition of murder and
- theft are things that are sometimes used to advocate the Ten
- Commandments, but they are only the first in a long series of laws
- that are commonly given nothing but contempt (Oh no! Contempt for
- God's law!!), such as the one about how one must not climb onto an
- altar because one would expose oneself to it if one did.
-
- Personally, I think that there are _much_ better reasons to
- frown on murder and theft than waving the Bible around.
-
- Granted, they are religious
- >ideas, but they are also the moral foundation for just about all of our
- >laws, and make sense.
-
- WRONG. Our legal traditions have _many_ sources, such as
- Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Roman. Trial by jury is an Anglo-Saxon idea
- that is nowhere to be found in the Bible, and certainly not in the Ten
- Commandments.
-
- [On supposed disrespect for fetuses...] It figures from a
- fetus-worshipper. The Bible nowhere contains any of the
- anti-abortionists' fetus worship.
-
- >His bottom line was we have to start teaching values, be it in school,
- >or better yet, in the home and church, or we're in deep trouble. When
- >people like Maxine Waters start calling a riot a rebellion and try to
- >rationalize lawlessness, we've got a problem.
-
- I don't want to defend the rioters, but let us not forget that
- George Washington might be considered a criminal by some standards. He
- lead a rebellion against a legitimate ruler, King George III, let us
- never forget.
-
- ... When people condemn a
- >bunch of cops beating up on a black man, but don't show the same
- >condemnation of black men beating up on a white man, there's a problem.
-
- And it's a terrible problem when it's the other way around, also.
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
-