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

To: epicure who wrote (28623)	9/20/2001 3:13:15 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

>>. I wasn't talking about morals. I was talking about belief in one's own faith.<< Then you obviously miss the point of my question.. While I agree with you that deeply held religious convictions are absolute within the minds of the adherents, I think to leave the argument there, without contrasting those who "use" their religious "faith" to promote death and destruction "in the name of" their religion to those who "use" their religious faith as a mechanism for personal "salvation" neglects a very salient differentiating point. Thus NO moral equivalency. Only equivalency WRT the depth of "faith" in one's belief system. That is where the comparison ends.

To: epicure who wrote (28623)	9/20/2001 3:21:50 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Does it strike you as much as it strikes me that certain people here lay in wait for you to make a statement, then jump en masse in indignation, having missed the point? This is what you wrote: But he is a great deal like you, Greg. He is sure he is righteous in the eyes of his Lord (as he understands his Lord). He illustrates the dangers of taking faith too far. When you abandon all cares of the secular world, and follow only your idea of God- it can lead you anywhere. It can lead you to places where you need not care about human misery, human death, and human degradation. He is on a holy cause, Greg. I am amazed you do not see that. His holy cause and yours are different, but you are both true believers. Frankly, this is in line with the point I've been making over the past thirty-six hours, that the "God is on my side" belief espoused by many religious people is a very slippery slope. One which I pray the US will not follow. But I didn't get jumped on by everyone else, just you.