--- Ivo Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which are the values? How do you know? Science is value-free. Values are
> taught by ethics and by Religion. The values can be summed up in one word:
> the Golden Rule of Love. "Do not do to others what you would not like others
> to do to you". But Jesus has given the proof of his love for the people on
> the Cross. This is not a "pious sermon", this is the hard, painful reality.
> Jesus forgave his enemies. John Paul II forgave Mehmet Ali Agka. Gladys
> Staines forgave the murderers of her husband and two sons. The sister of
> Sr.Mary Rani, who was killed for working for the poor, forgave the killer
> with the symbolic act of  "binding the hands". The daughter of Aldo Moro
> forgave the Red Brigades, who killed him...  Jesus told his disciples to
> love the enemies: "Love one another as I have loved you" (John 13:34).

Why doesn't George Bush forgive Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein? Maybe he's been
following the wrong Jesus.

-Tariq




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