[102718] in Cypherpunks
Democracy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivek Vaidya)
Tue Sep 15 17:41:03 1998
From: "Vivek Vaidya" <phirebearer@hotmail.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:06:37 PDT
Reply-To: "Vivek Vaidya" <phirebearer@hotmail.com>
>>>Almost 60 percent of those polled said they thought Clinton was fit
to be
>>>president. By what standard? That's the trouble. Americans have no
>>>standards -- no unchangeable yardsticks by which they measure right
and
>>>wrong, truth from fiction.
>
>>By *their* standard, by their own personal judgement. There's no moral
>>yardstick, and God help us if there is in the future. Who makes the
>>yardstick? Who sits down and says, "This is the moral standard in this
>>country, abide by it or suffer the consequences"?
>
>Sorry but there are absolutes and there is a moral yardstick. Whether
this
> is accepted or not is beside the point.
>
>There has to be absolutes otherwise any action can be excused (or
damned).
> The real cry should be
>"God help us to instigate Your yardstick". God doesn't change and
neither
>does His measure.
>
>1)Love the Lord, with all your heart, with all you soul with all your
mind
>and all your strength
>2)Love you neibour as yourself.
>
>Everything else hangs on these.
>
Ever heard of seperation of church and state? Democracy? the rights of
the individual? While you certainly have the right to practice your
religion in what ever manner you so choose demanding that everyone else
does, or that the president of the us of ais subject to you PERSONAL
faith decisions is outragous
Vivek Vaidya
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