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

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (16735)	3/16/2004 5:27:32 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"Oh. I didn't realize I was knocking one of your revered hero's" I didn't say you were. I said (as you quoted): "Mr. Doherty presented his personal perspective from a rational and objective standpoint, rather than from a Christian perspective" How you got from one to the other is beyond me and really doesn't interest me. "It's a Christian subject and has to be evaluated by Christian standards." A Christian will obviously evaluate it from a Christian perspective. Others will evaluate it from their own perspective. You see, Sidney. A JW will evaluate the transfusion of blood to save a child's life from his religious perspective. He will call it evil and wicked and such. A doctor will evaluate it from his perspective. He will call it an act of good. Likewise, with anything under the sun. There are infinite perspectives. You find something redeeming in what many of us see as disgusting, brutal, evil, contemptible, and reflective of superstition and primitive barbarism. Can you evaluate Judaism, Sidney? Can you evaluate Satanism? Can you evaluate atheism? Of course, you can--and you do. So why say that a scholar in religious studies cannot critique a movie?