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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (79642)5/23/2000 12:15:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I have less problems than Del with most of the Old Testament. After all, I assume a lot of cultural filtration occurred in the transposition of idea into historical text.

But the New Testament was written in Roman times, and the Romans had some pretty advanced sensibilities. The idea that somebody innocent needs to DIE badly in order to restore "justice" is profoundly misanthropic. Imo. I simply can't wrap myself around that.

I also have trouble with the core doctrine that we are born in sin. I'm pretty sure that we're born amoral, thoroughly meshed in our ego, and that social rules and morality are learned. But I wouldn't intuitively ascribe either "moral" or "sinful" nature to our innermost identities. Again - imo.
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