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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (24799)	8/25/2001 11:36:07 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

hedning.no but let's hear it for "faith based" activism ...and the politicians it gets elected .<g> "When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" -from Pat Robertson's "The New World Order," page 218.

To: Solon who wrote (24799)	8/25/2001 1:08:13 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Our justice system has always measured its response to transgressors by giving due consideration to the thoughts and motives of the perpetrator, and thus determining a measured and rational response These are your words, if they are true then hate crimes legislation is totally unnecessary. You responded; "That is like saying ALL legislation is unnecessary." I am wondering if AJ's story was true, and you did fall and injure your head. What I was saying is that motivation is already covered under current law, and any attempt to expand that is just a lame attempt to impose a politically correct agenda of thought, on the rest of society. This is being done through the courts because there is no support for it by way of the ballot box. That was quite the list you presented. What do you propose should be done to those people? Obviously "hangins too good for em". I know, how about reeducation camps, we could probably still get the Cambodian textbooks at a reduced rate. You might end up in one of those camps yourself, since "detesting" absolutists (read Christians) would itself be covered under such a wide ranging and ambiguous term such as hate. Perhaps we should add the header from "Should God be Replaced? " to your list of hate sites. If not, why not? "To my knowledge, there has never been a hate group composed of moral relativists." There is no such thing as hate for a moral relativist, but neither is there love. Frankly they cant say that it's "wrong" to hate, or "right" to love, so forming a hate group would be stupid. What they will do however is sit idly by while their friends and neighbors are hauled away to concentration camps to be killed for being absolutists. I'm not quite sure who is the most evil, those who hate, and kill, or those who just watch. Of course the minute they stand up and say HEY! THAT'S WRONG!!! they become absolutists and are themselves hauled away. As far as rejecting Christ and His kingdom as somehow unworthy. All I can say is, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Have a good day Solon. Greg