--- Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello mario: > > I have not clearly understood your point of view > about the moral code debate. > Mario replies: > I guess your earlier word was not as final as you intended, but that's OK :-)) > It is quite clear that you have not understood the essence of my clear but nuanced comments, but thanks for asking for clarification. Let's try again to the consternation of the sophisticates like Gilbert and Santosh, who exist on a different intellectual plane:-)) > Vivek writes: > > Do you think that in order to have sound moral > values one must follow a religion? preferably the > jude christian one which has a prescribed set of > commandments? > Mario replies: > Vivek, What part of the following excerpt from my post of July 4th. did you not understand? > "You are absolutely correct that one can be of upright moral character without being religious." > And again, did the following excerpt from my post of July 6 confuse you as well? > "But, let's also give credit where it's due. I think Sai Baba had a pretty good handle on things too, very succinctly,..." > Vivek writes: > > And a cafetaria catholic is one who would adhere t > the moral code prescribed in the religion but would > ahve no allegiance to the church or share its > beliefs when i comes to various contentious issues > like women priests abortion and all. > > Am i correct? > Mario replies: > About as correct as Cornel when he says that all scientific truths are provisional and that atheists have never had armies:-)) > The term "cafeteria" is a term that is facetiously used when one disagrees with A FEW precepts that are NOT PART OF THE BASIC ROCK SOLID MORAL CODE, but introduced by church officials over the years. A FEW differences of opinion hardly suggest that a cafeteria Catholic "...would ahve (sic) no allegiance to the church or share its beliefs...". > For a Hindu it might involve eating beef - a Jain friend once explained to me that he ate beef during a trip to the US because American cows were not sacred. Of course he was being facetious, but he was a cafeteria Hindu. His eating beef and potatoes from time to time did not prevent him from being a very good person, as most Jains are. > Technically, if an otherwise devout Hindu did not believe in the caste system he would be a cafeteria Hindu. >
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