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To: LindyBill who wrote (155480)	1/23/2006 10:29:15 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	of 793824

I guess it could be played up as a bomb shell. maybe it will. I read Pipe's reported exception and considered writing him explaining he was missing the boat. Pipes attempts to take what the Pope said as a hard and fast dictum of if this then that. But the Pope was speaking in terms of the literal interpretation of the Christian bible and the koran and the moral justification behind each. It's obvious that the purest Christian way is followed by very few when one takes it to the literal. The new testament completes the old and the life of Christ is about doing nothing really to worry about the physical world and doing everything to be saved for the spiritual world after one dies. In Christian doctrine it takes Thomas Aquinas to jigger logic so one can ever even defend oneself. The Pure Christian if one reads the Gospels to the literal will say to the Moslem, I love you and kill me if you must. How many Christians would do that? Love of God over life is supreme. Taking another's life even in defense is wrong. That puts man's world over God's. So both Christian and Moslem in the majority have put human interpretations on whatever books or words of the past. The issue the Pope illustrates is that interpretation is logically and morally possible in the Christian Bible and in the Koran it is not logically possible. It does not matter that men have done it and do it in both. Also there is little moral flexibility as the koran is by belief the spoken words of God and not man's attempt to express God's words. In Christianity and in the koran you need a Thomas Aquinas to get interpretations off of the main themes. Christianity is about giving one's life for God and in the Koran it OK to take another's if they will not admit to serving your God as you say it is so. Christianity has a default of give your life and let live. The koran has a default of take another's life if they don't believe if you can and even if it kills you.

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