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Mondon

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Wed Apr-20-05 01:31 PM
Response to Reply #60

66. Huh?

So you are judging his past actions by his present views? The same conduct 60 years ago has different moral content depending the individual's views today?

Let's take the converse of Ratzinger's situation: let's say he was a Nazi (he wasn't), that he eagerly joined up (he didn't), and that he was guilty of war crimes (he wasn't). If he were a "liberal minded person" today, you'd have no problem with his past?

With all due respect, that sounds unprincipled.

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