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FAITH FRONT
August 14, 2005|Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com.

THE RECENT BOMBINGS in London once again raise an ancient question: What is the greatest sin? One common response is that all sins are equally bad in God's eyes. But this makes little sense.

Do Catholics who believe it is a sin to masturbate believe that God considers masturbation as wrong as murder? Do Jews who believe it is a sin to eat non-kosher food equate doing so with a Jew committing rape? Do Protestants who believe it is a sin to gamble believe that God views a night at the blackjack table as sinful as abusing a child?
It is particularly sad when religious people depict God in a way that renders him less intelligent than his creations: "Sure, we humans think that murdering a family is worse than taking a stapler home from the office, but God doesn't!"

God, however, is no simpleton, and on the hierarchy of sin the Bible seems to be clear: The worst sin is committing evil in God's name. God abhors evil -- the deliberate infliction of unjust suffering on fellow human beings. There are some differences between the Old and New Testaments (e.g., on divorce), but they agree that God hates evil and loves goodness.

"Love your neighbor" is "the great rule" in Judaism and along with love of God (also from the Old Testament) is the central rule of Christianity. God did not destroy Noah's generation because it masturbated, ate forbidden foods or took home cheap objects from the workplace. He did so because it was violently evil.

So to discern what the greatest sin is, we begin with it having to do with evil actions. But that is not the end of it. Even among identical acts of evil, there is one category that is worse than any other: evil committed in God's name.

There are both logical and textual bases for this argument.

The logical argument: The Judeo-Christian position is that evil cannot be vanquished unless people believe that the creator has a moral will, makes moral demands upon all humans and morally judges each human being. Without a God-based moral code, morality becomes a euphemism for personal preferences and humanity sinks into moral anarchy.

Therefore, anyone who attaches the name of God to evil is not only committing an act of evil, he is subverting the only hope for spreading goodness on Earth -- belief in a good God who demands goodness. If there is moral anarchy when God is removed from morality, imagine what ensues when God is identified with evil.
FAITH FRONT
August 14, 2005|Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com.
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The textual argument: Only one of the Ten Commandments says that God will not forgive -- usually translated as "will not hold guiltless" -- one who violates the commandment: "Do not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain, for he will not hold guiltless whoever takes his name in vain."

This is almost always understood as meaning, "Do not say God's name when unnecessary" (such as, "God, that was some home run"). But this is most unlikely. The idea that God can forgive murder, for instance, but cannot forgive saying his name for no good reason is morally untenable. The literal Hebrew -- "Do not carry God's name in vain" -- gives a much more reasonable understanding. It strongly implies that the great sin here is one who carries God's name, i.e., talks and acts religious, but acts contrary to God's will.This understanding is further reinforced by Judaism, which has always held that the greatest sin is "desecration of the Name" (khillul Hashem), which means doing bad things while acting religious.

For these reasons, every person who believes in God and every God-based religion is hurt by the epidemic of Muslims murdering in the name of God. It reinforces every anti-religious stereotype and thus further alienates people from taking seriously any God-based religion. Bad religious people are far more destructive to the cause of religion than are atheists.

Apparently fear or ethnic and religious solidarity prevents many religious Muslim leaders from confronting the damage Muslim terrorists are doing to Islam's name, Allah's name and God-based morality generally. But for those of us who take God and goodness seriously, the world is witnessing the greatest sin on a scale unknown since the early Middle Ages.

If Jews, Christians and Muslims cannot say this publicly, we who are religious deserve the contempt the secular world already has for us.

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Emmanuel Eboue, “For me, I don’t think Fabregas, me or William [Gallas] will leave this club”

Van Pearsie says is hard to leave Arsenal

Is guys like him and Maldini that give us fans more heart for our clubs, My fav players right now are Messi and Rooni and Ronaldo even though he still has to put down in paper more goals he still is one of the greatest strikers of today!

Robin van Persie spurned the chance to leave Arsenal because of his fondness for the club.

Four teams - believed to be Chelsea, Manchester City, Juventus and Inter Milan - expressed interest in the Holland international, but he revealed: "It's not as easy to leave Arsenal as you maybe think."

The Gunners are without a trophy since winning the 2005 FA Cup - to date Van Persie's only major trophy with the club and a statistic which contributed to the departures of players including Mathieu Flamini.

But Van Persie, who signed from Feyenoord in 2004, said in The News of the World: "It is good that four teams were really interested in me but I had to turn them down.

"Even if you want to leave, as a player, I don't think it is easy because when you move to Arsenal you are led there by your heart."

Van Persie has been out since November with an ankle injury incurred while playing for Holland and he believes his fitness record has hindered his development into a great of the game.

"Everything starts with your fitness and some players are lucky like that," the 26-year-old added.

"I hate it but I can't do anything about it because this is my situation.

"When you look at great players, they are always fit, always sharp.

"When you play 50 games a season, you can score more goals and get more assists, so it follows that you are more important to the team."

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playforkeeps55: you know u2 is a christian band right
playforkeeps55: they just disclosed that

u2py: i dont mind, they play ok music
playforkeeps55: why would you say you mind though
playforkeeps55: coz they're christian and not muslum
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playforkeeps55: lol
u2py: lol
playforkeeps55: would you rather have him go out there and say im an atheist

u2py: after all it really doesn't matter what they believe in

playforkeeps55: word
u2py: its their problem
playforkeeps55: 777G is right there

playforkeeps55: do you believe in aliens

u2py: depends on what they are saying :P

playforkeeps55: i mean... if cnn and the apollo astronaut has come out and testified


playforkeeps55: who are you and me to worry about that

playforkeeps55: so my point is again

playforkeeps55: if you believe in aliens

playforkeeps55: why you find it hard to believe in God

u2py: even without anyone saying anything, its very plausible them to exist. dont know for sure but they can be there

playforkeeps55: mac 777 g got dissconected
playforkeeps55: when i said that
playforkeeps55: lol
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u2py: imo believing in god or what ever deity is ones own business, if it makes him/her happy - go for it.. how ever i find it hard to believe in such
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playforkeeps55: no you are right.. i find it hard to believe a lot of things i dont understand

playforkeeps55: but i have to go with the gut feelin sometime
u2py: and at the last hand i didnt believe lwayneo and see what went down.. damn

playforkeeps55: that's egzactly my point
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