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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Love and Hate
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:04:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:04:29 1984
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>>I *try* not to judge other people because they don't look like, act like, or
>>agree with me.  I'm not black but I don't hate blacks.  I'm not gay but I
>>don't hate gays.  I'm not christian but I don't hate christians.  I don't eat
>>liver but I don't hate people that do.  They all fall in about the same
>>category to me.  Whether the difference is one nobody can change or it's
>>something a person has a choice in, as long as it doesn't hurt me or anyone
>>else what right do I have to interfere.  Being different shouldn't mean better
>>or worse, just different.  [?????]

> I don't hate any of the above groups either, but what does judging
> have to do with hate?  [PAUL DUBOIS]
   ^
   |
*This* came from one of the most outspoken Christians in this newsgroup.
I think that says something.  Especially when none of the other Christians
saw fit to respond to it.  (It was followed by an "explanation" that the
passage "Judge not lest ye be judged" implied only that the "judger" will
be judged by the same standards that he/she used to judge.  Thus it's "OK"
if you judge by "God's standards"---whatever the judger has unilaterally
decided that *they* "really" are!  If you ever need evidence of advocates of
a religion interpreting their holy texts the way *they* feel like to match
their presuppositions, you've got it now.)
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