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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]The other side that secular government might not be such a horrible thing.[/i] Considering that it invariably has been so, from Julius Caesar to Jaing Zamin, I'd say there's very little chance of that. Once a government decides that it's all-powerful, and answers to no higher morality, you're screwed. Which is, coincidencly, the entire point of the skit. Look at Nuremburg. The entire premise of that trial was that all people everywhere are answerable to a higher authority than their government. How do you think the Roman empire deteriorated so far that the barbarians could take it out? Because it became an empire! Under the Republic, back when it had a healthy respect for morality, is where it gained its power, but once the government stopped being answerable to a higher morality, they also stopped being answerable to the people. Then everything started disintegrating, starting with the inflation of the money supply and working down from there all the way to people watching murder for sport. [i]Well or then. One or the other[/i] Yes, that might be good grammer, but people in my part of the country use such terminology as I wrote frequently. [i]Generally, tightening dialogue is really just getting rid of unneccessary so's, well's, then's, etc.[/i] Yeah, but people USE those unneccessary so's and well's. It doesn't quite sound real otherwise. [i]It only exists to say "Look! Yahweh == good! Anyone who tells you otherwise == bad! Convert them before they convert you!".[/i] Actually, I have the purpose of the play writtein on the cover sheet for the copy of the script that we hand the judges: "To illustrate the necessity of God in the moral functioning of a country; to illustrate that any country anywhere is susceptible to the false premise that true law and morality flows from government mandate, instead of from God, a premise which has caused untold destruction throughout history" Recommended reading: "Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Today" by Richard Maybury "What Ever Happened To Justice?" by Richard Maybury Very good books. Read. You may learn a thing or six about facism, and how, regardless of how many different countries try it, it's still a bad idea. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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