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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Greg or e who wrote (13322)5/9/2001 12:38:00 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
in light of your responses to others on the same topic, I can't help but feel you are being just a tad condescending.

I'm not being condescending. I haven't said anything less charitable about religion in discussion with anyone else than I've said to you directly. I think you've been a very good sport, considering the discrepancy between our views. I've expressed my disdain for religion to you openly and honestly, although perhaps not with a sledge hammer. I have also been straight-forward about my acceptance of the holding of religious beliefs by others right up until the point that they try to impose them on me.

Please share with us how you would implement your obviously superior moral standards.

I didn't mean to imply any general superiority of moral standards on my part. I was just addressing that one particular point that we've been discussing, which is, how are innocent nonbelievers in Jesus treated by your religion in regards to salvation. I haven't quite been able to pin it down. If, in fact, your deity would put people into a situation where they are not exposed to the opportunity to accept Jesus and then condemn them upon death for having failed to have done so, I consider that immoral. Surely you can understand why I would be loathe to worship an entity that operated on a lower moral plane than I, a humble human, do. At the risk of seeming to lack humility, I aver that I am much more charitable than to set some poor soul up like that. That's why I'm asking you what your deity would do.

Karen
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