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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (24265)	8/13/1998 8:40:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Emile, When I say that Christians don't exhibit an unusually high degree of moral perfection, I have in mind many very specific examples of hatred, intolerance, and the manipulation of scripture to justify behavior that is by any standard immoral. Also behavior that may by some standards be moral, but is clearly in contravention of their own sacred scriptures. Are you a supporter of capital punishment? How do you get that one past "thou shalt not kill"? <<Is this the fluid standard you want to use to measure other people's morality.>> All standards of morality are fluid, and only hypocrites denounce "moral relativism". It's wrong to kill. Unless the person you kill is trying to kill you, or someone else. And if they're recklesly endangering someone else? At some point in any moral equation there will always be gray, where we fall back on our conscience and what we've been taught, and we decide. We have no choice but to decide according to what we know at that moment, knowing full well that it may be wrong. The morality of evangelism is a case in point. Forcing your religion one someone else is wrong. Discussing it with someone else is not. But as the discussionbecomes increasingly aggressive, there comes a point where one person's right to peacefully embrace their own beliefs gets trampled on. At what point that line is drawn can only be decided on a case by case basis. It is flexible, not absolute. <<You have rejected his standard, and go about attempting to establish your own--very comical>> I find your conviction that the bible is the uncontaminated word of God a little comical, though you're welcome to it. My own belief is a little more complex, and I hope a little more subtle. Absolutism of any kind, IMO, can only be founded on our lives to ourselves. And I suspect that there are a few colors in my rainbow that you can't even begin to imagine. Steve