<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Keely wrote:<BR>
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"No one who worships Christ as Lord believes him to be just an especially enlightened philosopher, and those who don't worship him don't care."<BR>
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Actually, I the moral/ethical statements of Christ, as we understand them to be, are important to many people who do not worship Christ, depending on what you mean by<BR>
"worship." Christ is regarded as a very important and enlightened person and/or prophet, even by other religions, Islam among them, who do not "worship" him in the sense I think Keely means. And many non-theistic ethical thinkers regard Christ's ethical approach as expressing in some respects a very high level of ethical development.<BR>
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Ted Moffett<BR>
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