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10-26-2007, 08:28 PM | #32 | |
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On the other hand, being asked to take a plural wife would have been jarring. Being asked by Joseph whether he could take my wife as his own would have been jarring. There are books full of things in the early church that would have been jarring, but since we don't live in the early church it can't be any more than a theoretical discussion. The Catholic church was the author of a fair amount of mischief over the centuries. It has evolved into an organization that primarily does good, but that doesn't change the fact that it is the organization of the inquisition, the one that showed Galileo the instruments of torture and invited him to recant, the organization that burned witches at the stake. So what does the past that a church has departed from have to do with what a church currently asks its members to do? Ask the question in the reverse: what does what a church currently requires have to do with what it historically required? Your implicit assertion that nothing controversial is currently required is no more of a trump card that someone else's assertion that one hundred controversial things were once required. You know the answer to your question. What is your point?
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10-26-2007, 08:31 PM | #33 | |
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That is what you are saying, right? That's certainly the lesson I have taken from the church and the gay marriage issue. That it must not be that important to them, as they have gotten progressively less involved, less strident. The question is why. Because it is morally less important, or because the church fears the consequence of speakings its mind? Archaea, I apologize for laying out the issue starkly. It makes people uncomfortable when they realize what is being traded and bought. There will always (I hope) be people willing to point to what is actually going on. |
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He didn't display the professionalism one would have hoped to see from a professor from the Philosophy Deparment.
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The Church saw its political capital be drained and lost through this last costly battle and probably has re-evaluated it to see if it is one worth emptying the coffers and decided against it. Only survival issues are worth emptying the coffers. One doesn't go ballistic on every affront.
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So in your opinion an employee can produce shoddy work and bring the employer publicly in disrepute and still retain his position? You must live in a dream world there as a researcher. Most employers would can somebody for much less than that.
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Evil? Nothing comes to mind. Controversial?
A statement that I should oppose the ERA and support a constitutional amendment to the US Constitution prohibiting gay marriage come to mind. |
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You are correct in suggesting that BYU likes to keep its faculty's incompetence (not speaking of everyone) out of the spotlight.
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