[Vision2020] Religious Diversity Education

[Luke]

Greetings, Mr. Moffett:

> Is support of the death penalty characteristic of dictatorships and so
> called right wing regimes?  I could say it's a right wing position.  Your
> casting of the death penalty as "left wing" reveals a bias on how you view
> the issue, it seems.  So you think the Vatican is "left wing?"  That
Canada,
> Australia, France, England, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc. are all "left
> wing?"  I am so totally bored with this simple minded linear left vs.
right
> wing scheme for analyzing politics.

You''ve got a nasty bias on this issue, don't you?


> linked to differing interpretations of one of the Ten Commandments. The
> evidence is overwhelming that such a difference of opinion in Christianity
> does exist, is fervent and fundamental, involving millions of people who
> disagree.  The point of emphasizing this disagreement over the
> interpretation of one of the Ten Commandments is to argue that indeed it
can
> be difficult for the flawed and limited human mind to gain perfect
knowledge
> of God's laws.

    Suppose there's a 35 mph sign somewhere in Moscow. Two men walk up, and
one says, "Thirty-five? That's a fairly safe speed, don't you think?" Then
the other fellow replies, "Thirty-five? It doesn't say thirty-five, it says
20. Are you blind or something?" Then an argument ensues between them. But
the mere existence of a controversy doesn't make the law wrong, or
confusing. The sign still says 35, and that's still the right speed to go..
    The reason that there is a controversy over the death penalty is really
because of man's sinfulness. Whatever God commands us not to do is what we
want to do the most. He condemns stealing, yet thievery occurs en mass
throughout the world. He condemns lying, but it is so natural for us to
deceive others, and sometimes ourselves, when it suits our purposes. He
condemns fornication, yet there are millions who either do it or tolerate
it; the same goes for adultery. And the list goes ever on. Everything
divinely forbidden is sought after, and so when God draws out a just reward
for the murderer, the world today shuns His justice and lets the slayer get
off free.


> Science is a method of gaining knowledge based on replicable experiments
> and/or data gathering using theory to make inferences from the facts, but
> this method does not, as you state, "deny the existence of something
unless
> it can be chemically diagrammed or manipulated."  If something cannot be
> chemically diagrammed or manipulated, it may not be understood in these
> terms, but why does it follow it does not exist, according to science?
> Scientific method indicates that many possibilities exist, and none can be
> ruled out till they are examined with experiment and observation and
theory.
>   Even then, many explanations for a given phenomena may still be
possible.
> What is your point?

    Oh, I have nothing wrong with science, but it is a tool with limited
application; you cannot make moral judgments off of scientific knowledge, or
upon the basis of empirical probability, which is in effect what you  were
doing.

Have a good day,
Luke Nieuwsma