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- From: teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger)
- Subject: Re: using the bible to advance bigotry
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.024856.6491@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan1.233124.11709@rock.concert.net> <C07DBw.1oE@math.uwaterloo.ca> <casivils.726097308@node_508ba>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:48:56 GMT
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- In article <casivils.726097308@node_508ba> casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (craig sivils) writes:
- >In <C07DBw.1oE@math.uwaterloo.ca> shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit) writes:
- >
- >Whats next, if we can be intolerant toward people for what the beleive but
- >not what they do, whats next.
- >
- >Why is wrong to rob a grave, have sex with animals, children, would it be wrong
- >to spike a pregnant mothers drink with RU42 (or whatever it is), why is
- >blackmail wrong and taxation not? Fact is that we have to make moral decisions
- >and when it comes down to it, you have to assume something. If I choose to
- >believe the Bible and find it to be a workable basis for me then why don't you
- >practice some of that toleration
- >
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- Because you insist that all others must have the same views as you hold and
- you go to the extreme of trying to legislate them into being. When you and
- yours stop trying to force your views onto everyone else then the tolerance
- will be there.
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- Ciao!
- John S. :^)
- teddybur@netcom.com
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