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- From: dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier)
- Subject: Re: Shutting Down Catholic masses
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.002924.27723@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:29:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.222055.29638@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.064203.8902@news.acns.nwu.edu> dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan24.012307.19435@netcom.com> gordons@netcom.com (Gordon
- >>Storga) writes:
- >>
- >: <1993Jan22.214302.24837@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo
- >>Pinkas) :
- >>
- >: >So, because the Church does something which is wrong, you have the
- >: >right to do the same thing to them
- >: >Great!
- >:
- >: Sometimes the only way to get through to an oppressor is to oppress them.
- >: That's the golden rule, isn't it? The Pope treats certain people a
- >: certain way, he must expect to be treated that way back.
- >:
- >>Trouble is, by hacking away at Catholics and Catholicism you don't oppress the
- >>Pope in the least. You just build up more animosity against Catholics. You
- >>know, those people that the Pope oppresses? Oh well, we're getting kind of
- >>used to it.....
- >>
- >>Oh, and the rule you are thinking of is, "Do unto others as you would have
- >>them do unto you." Somehow, you mistakenly stated the "eye for an eye"
- >>philosophy.
- >
- > And what should be done about violators, O Golden-Rule Expert?
- >
- > If you don't agree with "if you punch me in the nose, I'll
- >punch you in the nose" justice, then what kind of justice would you
- >prefer?
-
- Am I the one that mistakenly switched the Golden Rule for the Eye for an Eye
- rule? No, I don't believe that was me.....
-
- So, O Great Demi-Diety of Wisdom and Justice, how do you do so well at
- extrapolating my beliefs simply when I corrected your phrasing of the Golden
- Rule? The Golden Rule isn't based on enforced justice, but what you can
- personally do to be just. Big Difference.
-
- Twerp.
-
-
- --
- Douglas C. Meier | Didn't need no welfare state, everybody
- Northwestern University, ACNS | pulled his weight...Those were the days!
- This University is too Commie- | --From theme to "All in the Family"
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