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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Samuelson on Moral Relativism
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 10:46:41 EST
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The trick is that Gary Samuelson thought that Muffy might see his posting
as a personal attack, and tried to combat that belief with his closing
paragraph. Assuming that Gary Samuelson is candid, then he is looking
for a way to condemn moral relativism without condeming moral relativists.
I don't know how successful a paragraph can be in being such a way. We
will see how Muffy takes it...
Are you trying to condemn Christianity  without condemning Christians? So
far, the only evidence I have seems to indicate that you are trying to
condemn Christianity through condemning Christians. Note that this is
rather different from what Gary Samuelson is professing to do.

The concept of ``hating the sin but loving the sinner'' is good for deep
thoughts. Personally, I don't think  that I have ever done this. I hate
the sin, hate the sinner -- but when the sin goes away (or I realise that
I was wrong in thinking that what someone else way doing was wrong) so
does the hatred. Of course, my list of things that I will hate anybody
for is rather short. I am curious as to whether anybody (still alive
now) has actually managed to hate the sin but love the sinner. I can
regret the sin but love the sinner, but when I turn on hatred it seems
to be consistently both or neither.

So this makes my list of ``things I think Christianity demands of you
that are not humanly possible''. But maybe I just don't know how.

Laura Creighton
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