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

To: epicure who wrote (53113)	7/17/2002 12:18:57 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

On the fringe, maybe. At the core, I don't agree. To one extent, you're right that for religious people, their lives are -- or should be -- a reflection of their beliefs. But that's not the way I was talking about the issue. I was speaking of issues which are central to religious belief. Certain issues are, IMO, clearly religious in nature. Of the major issues on the political scene today, foir example, I woudl include homosexual marriage, abortion, and enthanasia as clearly being major issues for almost all mainstream issues. On the other side, while economic justice is an issue for some religions, I don't know of many religions, for example, that consider whether a drug benefit should be added to Medicare as being at the core of their religious beliefs structures. I know of no religion, for example, that would consider it a sin for a congressperson to vote for or against a given drug benefit bill; OTOH, I do know religions that would consider it a sin for them to vote in favor of unlimited abortion, or for homosexual marriage. Maybe that's the best way to put what I was saying. What are the issues where taking the "wrong" position could be considered by the religion as a sin, rather than as a difference from the mainstream teaching of the church.