On Tue, March 27, 2007 5:26 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Christian Seberino wrote: >> On many things I think Christianity *does* accept compromise, >> flexibility, >> admission of errors and tolerance. > > It depends on your flavor of Christianity. The problem we are currently > having is that 50+% of Christians do not accept compromise on > functional, secular concerns like evolution and science. > > The problem is who gets to decide that your flavor of Christianity is > acceptable and that some other is not?
Yes but you get a spectrum of reasonableness and silliness in any group. Even Dems and Republicans have their extremes. And yes different people have different opinions on what is extreme or silly. I don't think we'll solve this one in our lifetimes. > If you give the government that power, then it can persecute. Thus, the > only way out is to prevent the government from touching religious > concerns at all. If religious groups were the only groups with extremists that might be true. Correct me if I'm wrong but in a democracy if the majority wants something they are allowed to change the laws to get it. Not just Christians but any group. This is an argument to make sure the voting populace is well educated, sane and fair if you ask me. > While the converse does not *have* to be true, more qualified, more > religious men than I have argued that when religion enters the political > arena to accomplish its goals, it gets corrupted by worldly concerns and > inevitably loses its moral core. I see no evidence that they are wrong. Yes I agree power can be tempting and corrupting. This is true for everyone. Are you saying non-religious people are somehow immune to this corruption? > However, you are correct. I have a few very core principles that I will > not compromise. Freedom of speech, for example, is a big one. Once > freedom of speech is gone, little else matters. Equality under the law > is another big one. If one does not believe in these kinds of > principles, I do wish them removed from my society. OK good I'm glad you said that. So Christians aren't really that different from non-Christians as far as this goes. It is not a question of one side being tolerant/flexible/open while the other side is not. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
