RE: Compassion

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

David:

If you want to elevate John Harrell's juvenile insulting outburst where he 
labels women who might choose to show their breasts in public "sluts" to the 
status of an expression of a "cultural and religious tradition,"  then I 
suggest you might also need to recover from the warped psychology that can 
justify making such a degrading comment about women while linking this 
defense to a certain "religious tradition."  You do a disservice to your 
ideology and/or theology by coming to the defense of misogynist mud 
slinging.

I also sincerely wish you a full recovery.  Now, you're not going to ask 
what from, I hope?

Yours in worship of the divine female in us all,

Ted

>From: "David Douglas" <ddouglas@pacsim.com>
>To: "'Ted Moffett'" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>
>CC: <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: Compassion
>Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:32:36 -0700
>
>Mr. Moffett:
>
>Your post seems to omit some information:
>
>snip> ....mindset, that accepts the validity of and sacredness of the many
>valuable cultural and religious traditions of the human race. <snip
>
>Well, Mr. Harrell appears to have a cultural and religious tradition.  And
>yet you further write:
>
>snip>	"You have my deepest sympathy, Mr. Harrell, and my sincere hopes for 
>a
>full recovery!"   <snip
>
>What exactly is Mr. Harrell supposed to recover from, and why does he merit
>your deepest sympathy?  Is his religious tradition not valid?  By what
>standard do you judge its validity, and what qualifies you to subordinate
>his viewpoint to another (yours).
>
>How can even most traditions be valid?  Some say there is no God, others 
>say
>God is everything.  If everyone can be correct, why not Mr. Harrell?
>
>It seems that the "validity of ... the many ....traditions of the human
>race"--is not without stipulations.  What are they?  And what, 
>specifically,
>does one believe that is consistent with and accepts as valid all (or 
>nearly
>all) religious traditions?
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>David Douglas




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