Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sfmag.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!samet From: samet@sfmag.UUCP (A.I.Samet) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Refuting Abominable Logic Message-ID: <581@sfmag.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-May-85 00:08:24 EDT Article-I.D.: sfmag.581 Posted: Fri May 24 00:08:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 25-May-85 00:29:01 EDT References: <411@oakhill.UUCP> <564@sfmag.UUCP> <1672@cornell.UUCP> <1594@aecom.UUCP> <572@sfmag.UUCP> <995@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Summit, NJ Lines: 29 > If the religious right were to make your sorts of statements about > those who practice the "abomination of Judaism", you would be rightfully > upset, no? Is there a reason why you can't have the same level of > tolerance for others and their ways that you would expect others to have for > you and your ways? It's your opinion that sexual practices other than your > own are abominable. Fine. There are those who have the same feelings about > the way you practice your religion. In what way are you any different from > them? The Torah refers to homosexuality as an "abomination" and, lehavdil, to those who keep the Torah as "Holy". That's the difference. Someone people pride themselves on being tolerant, but can't seem to tolerate those who believe in absolutes (like those of us who who view the Torah as the word of G*d). Tolerating only those who are absolutely tolerant would require one not to tolerate himself, unless he believes in hypocricy. Believing absolutely that there are no absolutes is contradictory. Believing in an absolute truth is consistent with not tolerating its antithesis (and with viewing the opinions quoted above as intolerably absurd.) Yitzchok Samet