From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 01:27:09 GMT
Sam and all:
Sam Norton said:
To my mind the overwhelming teaching of Judeo-Christian morality derives
from the prophetic strand of teaching, which centres on two things: 1. the
right worship of God, 2. the right relation between members of society. That
last is taken up in the form of a great condemnation of 'social exclusion',
ie when people are deprived of the ability to participate in a society.
...However, that doesn't, for me, resolve the left/right issue. Once you
accept that social exclusion must be overcome, you then get the more
technical discussion about how best to overcome it, and you then get the
political arguments between left and right about the relative merits of the
present dispensation. I think both state socialism and the unrestrained free
market fail to ensure that there is no social exclusion, but the present
system, whilst better than both of those, is still clearly in need of
improvement.
dmb says:
For some reason my mind lept to the rapture and the idea that all
non-christians will be "left behind" to suffer a hellish apocalypse, certain
death and everlasting hellfire. Basically, its genocide on a cosmic scale.
And then I wondered how that scenario might fit into the theme of inclusion
you mention here.
Also, if the coin is made in Ceasar's image and Ceasar, like all men, was
made in the image of God, then shouldn't we say money is the image of God?
Therefore rich people are holy and its eaiser for a camel to get through the
eye of a needle than it is for a poor man to enter the kingdom of heaven,
right? And screw the peacemakers, right?
Did you hear what Jesus said? He said we should turn our swords into
ploughs. He wants us to disarm unilaterally in a dangerous world. He wants
to send our soldiers back to the farm. He doesn't care about protecting us
from terrorism. He's weak on defense. Jesus is bad for America. He's a
commie.
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