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Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:39:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0610-08.htm
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> Well, this goes hand in hand with the other thread about homosexuality in the
> Xtian church. If we were to be guided by what Jesus might have done in our
> stead, how different things would be. Usually though, you just get some Bible
> thumper that wants to use Biblical teachings to put you under his thumb -- so
> that he can tell you what is what and how to behave. Am I wrong?
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> Anyway, Dave! -- what happened to your love of the separation of church and
> state?
Well, I'm a pragmatist, after all! 8^)
Besides which, I think the beauty of this story is not the issue of
church/state separation but rather the apparent church/church separation! The
fun will come in watching the Christian Coalition scramble to justify its
decades-old doctrine of greed in the face of this new, more altrustic tax
structure.
So you're right--I'm 100% in favor of 100% church/state separation. But it's
great to see politicians using church doctrine to help people rather than to
exploit (or condemn) them.
Dave!
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