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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Christians and sex (slight digression)
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Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 10:21:47 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 22 10:21:47 1984
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One point in an article by Stephen J. Hartley (uvm-cs!hartley) caught my eye:

> ... I grew up in the sixties when attitudes were more
> along the lines of "Love God and do as you please" and situation ethics.

I believe the original use of the phrase "Love God and do as you please" was by
a well-known saint (Augustine, I think); and I think he was making the point
that if one genuinely loves God, one's actions will be in line with God's will,
so one would not have to get all legalistic about what one did.  (This would
seem to be in accord with Galatians, wherein Paul rather strongly urges that
we not become slaves again to the Law -- wise advice, for that is a slavery
I'm just now, finally, escaping from.)

The same idea was expressed by a Christian psychologist named Logan Fox, who
sometimes is called upon as a speaker.  Once he said in a sermon, "When you
leave here, you may go out and do anything you want to do."  When some people
said to him afterwards that they considered this statement dangerous, he
replied, "What kind of people are you?"

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-- Jeff Sargent
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"Jesus looked Death in the eye, and Death blinked first."