Posted on 01/02/2005 5:05:09 PM PST by guitarist
Dec. 30 - During the harshest years of apartheid, Desmond Tutu was always an outspoken voice of conscience. The 73-year-old Anglican archbishop faced down dirty tricks, arrests and assassination threats to lead protest marches and highlight racial injustice in his native South Africa. And when his country finally became a democracy in 1994, Tutu went on to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission—a widely-admired panel that granted amnesty to human rights violators and set a global model for other countries trying to come to terms with legacies of political violence.
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So much wrong here with this article; so little time. So I leave it to you, my beloved Freeper bro's and sis's to have at it! Guitarist
TuTu and his moral relativism belong in the unitarian 'church' - his amoral mutterings have little relevance except for those in search of a crutch for 'liberal' brain droppings. He and his buddy Carter and Fidel all have an equivalent message and moral standing - which is zero.
So much wrong in just the title. Why bother.
Tutu has done such a great job South Africa has become a paradise. Bwahaahahahahahaha
A: [Laughs] I keep having to remind people that religion in and of itself is morally neutral.
An impertinent question, to begin with. But, in Tutu's defense, I believe he misspoke (or was misquoted). Clearly, what he meant to say was "...religion, in and of itself, is politically neutral."
At least, I hope that's what he meant...
MSNBC did Tutu no favors by making this statement the headline issue -- likely misrepresenting him, in their glee.
It is religion that defines morality!
Tutu's tutu is on too tight.Too bad he never was a Christian.One cannot be a Socialist and a Christian.
Nor divided by any idols before Christ.Christ is not
divided. Tutu is just another leftist Liar.
I suspect Tutu is a Bishop in the same fashion that Jesse Jackson was "ordained" via emial or something..
Sounds like his brain is "mostly" in "nuetral"!
"It is religion that defines morality!"
I'd say it's closer to a mutual feedback system with morality having precedence. Morality exists whether or not religion exists. Religion *in part* formalizes at least some moral tenets, though not necessarily all. Religion can not exist without morality. (What kind of morality is a different issue.)
Who or what defines what is moral - and what the moral standards are?
Another liberal who does not understand the concept of free speech. It means that those who disagree with you are also able to speak freely, even to "attack" you verbally. That is all they did. He was not thrown in jail or kicked out of the US because of what he said.
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