Readers' Comments - Comments by Maynard S. Clark - 18 Jun 2002
January 2003
Incidentals! Incidentals!
Not to be overlooked, but not to be weighted too strongly in deciding how to
live and communicate.
Your neighbor is not the entire world, and we DO live in history. Your
neighbor's behavior is NOT the sum-total of human history, nor should it be
treated as such.
IF one BELIEVES the Gospel accounts and teachings, then look again at the
malice towards persons exhibited by ALL human persons, not merely by
professing Christians.
The Bible isn't start out being ABOUT the behavior of Christians, but about
the moral condition of the human species. It's at THAT point that
meticulous, sensitive observers of OUR SPECIES have talking ground with the
Bible (even if they're not on the same page with professing Christians).
It's ONE thing to discuss advancing humane agendas inside churches, but
while not entirely different, it's logically distinct from reading the Bible
to read what is taught there about our species. I say: a confrontation
is in order, a personal self-confrontation on the order of those 'inner
jihads' some Muslims are publicly discussing.
Maynard
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