Re: Let your voice be heard on the sanctity of marriage...

"default" <default@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:15:25 -0400, "Pastor Frank"
> <PF@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>    You talk like one who thinks good and evil actions are
scientifically
>>quantifiable.
>
> I have no earthly idea how you got that from my writing.  What I did
> say was the terms good and bad are highly subjective - they are
> opinions only.  What is good for one person may not be bad for
> another.
> Cost of oil?  Bad for 300 million people in the US good for ~10,000.
> Gay marriage? bad for 150 million people, good for 30 millions.
> Stem cell research? good for 300 million and bad for a few million
> Serial homicide?
> Sunlight? Rain?
> All subjective - not scientifically quantifiable.
>
>>Christ came to to establish the standards for good and evil
>>His followers are to adhere to. If you prefer other standards, then by
all
>>means elucidate, reference and compare them to those of Christ, so we
all
>>can learn.
>
> I practice/live what some may call a Christian philosophy.  Was there
> a person named Christ?  Probably.  Did he do and say what is
> attributed to him?  Very questionable.  Did he perform miracles?
> Highly unlikely.  Was he a/the deity?  No.
>
>>    Most atheists only trash Christ's standards, but wisely refrain from
>>advocating any other. This is very thoughtful of them, for it would
cause 
>>us
>>to suffer no end of apoplectic laughing fit seizures.
>
> Christ's standards?  Christ said nothing that hadn't already been said
> long before him.  Philosophers have likely been ha****ng this sort of
> thing out since before historical records - certainly after historical
> records.
> All the Christ philosophy did was revamp the old testament and update
> God's public relations - no smiting, no hissy fits, less temper
> tantrums - there is really no way to rationalize the old and new
> testaments as being somehow the same basic religion.
> We can only wonder - there's been far too many politicians cherry
> picking the old historical records.
>
    Again you diminish unnecessarily. Like most atheists who use words
like 
"mere", and "only" etc. liberally, you fail to magnify and glorify, 
considering anything "said before|" lacking merit. Christ advocates love
and 
care being akin to the united field theory in im****tance to human quality 
and the quality of life, and He demonstrated that principle to the death
on 
the cross of Calvary. All else is commentary.