(urth) Pirate Freedom and the Morals Of Gene Wolfe

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 10:49:22 PDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jerry Friedman
<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't know how Aquinas and others reconciled that with
> Jesus's teachings, but apparently they did.

It is lawful to use violence to protect one's goods and chastity. Jesus
never said it wasn't. However, Jesus called men to a higher standard
than the Law: He called them to moral perfection, and that means not
resisting the evildoer.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes



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