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Now I've reread my Bible and didn't see any passage mentioning looking or voting anywhere, and I'm including footnotes, addendums, forward and epilogue. It does say that I am to love my neighbor as myself. However, that begs the question, "what if I hate myself?" Am I to hate my neighbor, too? So I checked into the original Hebrew Testament and, lo and behold! I found the exact passage about loving my neighbor and the very same question posed about self-hatred, too! And all the Jewish commentaries had exactly the same answer. Love means respect. Even those that hate themselves want respect, even if that respect is unrequited. As these commentaries and explanation predate Jesus by some thousand years, and Jesus being well aware of these explanations, I trust this to be the correct explanation.

Respect includes a component of morality. No one truly respects an immoral position or act, whether performed by the public at large or by oneself in private. Morality is a fixed virtue for all time and all people, even those who do not follow Judeo-Christian precepts. That is the essence of the Bible: an inviolate moral code for all time established in the face of pagan religious immorality and licentiousness. Therein lies the immorality of today's multiculturalism and political correctness. Not all cultures and religions are equal or moral. Morality is for all peoples to accept, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Manitou aside. It isn't easy and certainly many refuse its mantle. Life without standards means anything and everything is ultimately judged to be OK. Right is right and wrong is right, too. But, for some self-proclaimed Evangelical minister to invoke a moral equivalency stance is both immoral and contrary to basic Judeo-Christian theology. Loving thy neighbor without a moral component will lead to loving thy neighbor, his wife and kids. Literally.

p>To deny God's promised inheritance of the entire Holy Land to the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob negates biblical and Christian teachings. It is immoral. One could even claim such a stance to be utterly pagan and anti-God. It is certainly not Evangelical. br> -- Wolf Terner br> Fair Lawn, New Jersey /p>

"Seiple described Muslims he meets as hostile to America because they assume all Americans are evangelical and therefore 'political, strident, unforgiving.' One Muslim friend told him: 'You Americans have the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other.'"

p>ROTFLOL. Pot, meet the kettle. br> -- Andrew Macfadyen, M.D. br> Omaha, Nebraska /p> p> Was curious if Rachel Corrie's family isn't on Chris Seiple's Christmas card list. What a pathetic bunch. br> --

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