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By Donna Jacobs Sife, published 13/4/2006What exactly are the Christian values that Peter Costello speaks of?
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Islam is said by some thinkers to be in a Dark Ages similar to what Christianity was before Peter Abelard and St Thomas Aquinas saw the light in the 10 to 11 centuries AD.
Should we be ashamed that Abelard and Aquinas had to be shown the light of true understanding through Golden Greek reasoning that sadly both modern Islam and much of modern Christianity have now thrown out. How tragic it is that many Lutheran and Roman Catholic bishops remained quiet during the more recent horrors of Nazism and Hitlerism.
Donna, it is so wonderful that you have brought forth expressions from many of our Posters not so much about Christianity, but more the teachings of the young Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount being so typical and so much needed in our world today. Helping to bring thoughts about sharing the blame with our neighbours, and even the famous saying of Socrates, "Out with the Gods and in with the Good", because surely a Good God would not like what many of us are up to these days. Both sides of this rotten world conflict, at that