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Academic program on Western Civilisation : Comments
By Peter Bowden, published 18/1/2019University staff are openly liberal, and are likely to reject proposals that have such a conservative background.
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I don't think your reading my points as much as adding to them things I haven't said, and then assuming that version instead of what I actually said. I don't think you're doing this on purpose, but I want to tell you this so that you realize it and then are able to better read what I write.
I'm not presenting a case for a different system then western civilization. Instead I'm saying apply the principles from the teachings in the bible to our civilization. It's not a theocracy, it's still a democracy republic mix. But if the actual principles suggested are bad, harmful, or just not as good, then please point out how they are bad, harmful, or not as good as what we have going on now.
What specifically have I said that reminds you of Iranian morals police arresting and raping a young orphaned girl for alleged promiscuity before she was hanged. These things are about looking for a good responsible leader, not about arresting anyone who doesn't fit the bill.
(Many Christian perspectives point out that we all sin, and try to move in a direction of helping each other out of our sins or letting them go their own way and not associate with them anymore. The worst that that approach would do is add an element of isolating people like a form of ex-communication kind of thing by a community as a whole. That factor can be balanced by acknowledging a principle of the importance of redemption and reconciling each other. There is nothing that I know of from biblical principles that would lead to raping girls and then hanging them).
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