Re: [asa] on the common good, and science

Pim and Janice: I suggest you take this discussion offline. Not that it isn't
interesting -- I'd love to get involved myself. But this is intended to be a
science and Christian faith discussion.

--- PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting question, is the socialist system, which in many ways
> seems to be closer to Christ(ian), than the laissez faire
> alternatives? A free system however is a flawed concept since freedom
> is a relative concept which can hold captive large amounts of the
> population under the concept of "if they are hungry, let them eat
> cake"...
> Capitalism in concept as well as practice hardly seems to warrant the
> title mature, certainly in its latter form it has failed miserably. A
> free system needs to be equally free to all, not free to some and
> "free in name only" to the majority of others.
>
>
>
>
> On 1/26/07, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > At 05:43 PM 1/26/2007, Janice Matchett wrote:
> >
> > At 05:27 PM 1/26/2007, David Opderbeck wrote:
> > But it can be responsible public policy to take things away from people for
> > the common good.
>
> > @ "..S*cial*st systems above all treat men as pawns to be moved about by
> > the authorities, or as children to be given what the rulers decide is good
> > for them, or as serfs or slaves. The rulers begin by boasting about their
> > compassion, which in any case is fraudulent, but after a time they drop
> this
> > pretense which they find unnecessary for the maintenance of power. In all
> > things they act on the presumption that they know best. Therefore they and
> > their systems are morally stunted. Only the free system, the much assailed
> > capitalism, is morally mature."
> > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352736/posts
> >
> > ~ Janice
> >
>
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Bill Hamilton
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