Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl colossal Henning) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: This Present Darkness Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 07:47:14 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Michael Podeszwa writes: >I've always been taught that "Judge not lest ye be judged" was not >to say that we shouldn't judge, but that whatever standards we use >to judge will be used for us as well. If we couldn't judge, who >could say murder is wrong? That's a socially pragmatic interpretation, perhaps; but really, that's not what it /says/. It doesn't /say/ "do unto others as you would have them do unto unto you"; it /says/ "do not judge -- or you'll be judged yourself". kph -- "The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you." -- Henry Miller