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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (992)	9/21/2000 9:47:03 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

lol I think we probably agree. relatively I have heroes- across time. Marcus Aurelius is one. Voltaire is another. But I guess my only point really was- I would not thrust my heroes or the values that make them my heroes, upon another person, by force (except perhaps, force of rhetoric). That is the MAIN difference, to my way of thinking, between me and the extremists whom I despise (in my relative way.)

To: Solon who wrote (992)	9/22/2000 3:18:26 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

Before Luther came along there was Jan Hus, put to the stake by the Council of Constance 1414-1418 for saying among other things the following: "23. The pope ought not to be called "most holy" even by reason of his office, for otherwise even a king ought to be called "most holy" by reason of his office and executioners and heralds ought to be called "holy", indeed even the devil would be called "holy" since he is an official of God." It really goes straight to hell when lawyers, scribes and pharisees take over. The clear reasoning of Hus was more than the political structure of Catholicism could handle at the time, or even now. piar.hu