Bob W. wrote:
> people like Falwell put themselves into impossible positions with this
> sort of opinion. If disasters like this are their god's punishment of a
> sinful society then either everybody who suffers in this way is among
> the "liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion
> rights supporters" or their god is highly unjust and arbitrary in his
> punishments. He hasn't for instance, punished me (a civil libertarian,
> feminist, supporter of gay and abortion rights) in any way that I can
> discern, but he almost certainly has punished people who share the views
> of Falwell et al. You'd think after an eternity this god would by now
> have devised a rather better instrument than this unsubtle and
> indiscriminate brutality.
>
> Furthermore, these people seem to ignore their own Bible in several
> ways. Didn't god promise to show mercy even to the inhabitants of Sodom
> if there were any righteous people in the city? Do Falwell and his
> supporters take it upon themselves to be less forgiving than their own
> God, and condemn the innocent? Perhaps the biggest mistake that these
> 'Christians' seem to make is to imagine that their god is still the angry
> old guy of the Old Testament. They seem to have forgotten that the New
> Testament has precedence over the Old, and the message of the New Testament
> is one of love and forgiveness. Neither of these qualities seems particularly
> evident in the fundamentalist world view.
Mr. Walkden, if you were a teacher, I'd come be your student.
--Mike
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