twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss) (11/22/84)
>>... The Bible may say that humans are created in the image of God, >>but so what? There is no God. And the rest of the statements are just as >>ridiculous. >>... If >>someone believes in "what the Bible teaches", there's very little point in >>trying to explain to them a philosophical basis for the concept of rights... >>-Norm Andrews (My opinions are my own, not the Bible's or my employer's...) > >Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that Christians who believe in what the Bible >teaches are barred from speaking up. Seriously, I believe that Scripture >gives us a consistent world view on which we can form opinions and make >decisions. It is an objective standard and starting point. > >-- >Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. > ...{presby|psuvax|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl Wait a minute, Tom. I will agree that yo were unjustly attacked here, and that you have the right to base your beleifs on anything you want, but don't say that the Bible is an OBJECTIVE source! It is anything but! Perhaps from the standpoint that God is the ultimate source of things, yes. But the Bible is an object of the temporal realm. Even if it has an "objective" basis, it is nonetheless translated into the subjective world. Besides, the fact that it is interpreted by thousands of individuals in thousands of different ways shwos that it is indeed a subjective thing. You can certainly base your opinions on anything you want, just realize that, even for Christians, the Bible is NOT necessarily the Truth. It is intended as the closest approximation that humans can achieve and it should NOT be pushed on others as THE OBJECTIVE way to determine morality. I know this should be in net.religion, but I couldn't help myself. -- Tom Twiss @ St. Olaf College {decvax,ihnp4}!stolaf!twiss "If the Paradox and the Reason come together in a mutual understanding of their unlikeliness their encounter will be happy..." -Soren Kierkegaard