On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:32:35 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote > You are > twisting his statement into an excuse for inaction - > we do not know God's will, so we must do nothing.
Are you willing to stop saying that, since it's not true? > That's exactly wrong. What Lincoln was saying is > exactly the opposite of that point - he was saying, we > cannot know God's will, so we must do the best we can > given what we _do_ know. So we agree. But we seem to disagree about what is the best we can do. > Lincoln contained multitudes, > but none of those multitudes can plausibly be enlisted > in an argument that we should sit on our hands in the > face of great evil. Have you ever considered the fact that if I really believed this poppycock, I would speak rather differently about my dead nephew? Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
