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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Perhaps what Santosh is trying to say is that many if not most of the so called God fearing individuals are what as Jesus would refer to as being today's Pharasies. Since one is free to widely interpret and practise one's religion (like Mario's Cafeteria Catholism which allows him the freedom to "believe" that the Vatican was allied with Islamic terrorists!!), the defintion of what can be construed as a "sin" is itself open to debate. To some, "thou shall not kill" is a pretty definative statement. To many so called God fearing individuals killing is acceptable under a wide swath of options ranging from the Nazi genocide of the Jews to saving the "life" of stem cells at the expense of the lives of fully functional human beings. The same could also be said about non god fearing individuals. Being religious or not religious is not a sufficient criteria for being moral. If we could agree on a broad definition of "morality" and place people within this bell curve of morality, I suspect both the religious and non religious people would have their morality curves overlap each other - basically no difference. Humans are overly complex people to be categorized based on a single parameter. Marlon --- Peter D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jose Colaco writes: > > > Santosh Helejar wrote: <A misconception that has > just been propagated in > > this forum is that god-fearing people cannot be > evil. This misconception can > > be easily refuted by giving several present-day > examples of god-fearing > > people who are evil, or have committed evil acts.> > > > > My dear Santoshbab, > [deletia] > > A God-fearing person cannot be evil; If he is, he > cannot be God-fearing. > > > > BTW: I am sure you will agree with me that Those > who proclaim to be God > > fearing, may not really be what they proclaim to > be. > > > Jose, > > Allow SanTosh to put aside scientific cynicism aside > for a moment. How > else will > he be able to make his case that God-fearing people > can be evil? If > someone commits acts of evil and claims to be > God-fearing at once, it > is the prerogative of every agnostic and atheist > (scientist or > otherwise) to accept such claims at face value. > Please don't take the > fun out of this argument! > > Very sincerely, > > Peter D'Souza _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org