[HPforGrownups] Re: Jo's OWN Words/Harry using Crucio/I am about to Rant/Danger Designating the

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 174697

Lee Kaiwen wrote:
> While I enjoyed your analysis, I think you've oversimplified the 
> Christian side a bit. Christianity also teaches obedience to authorities 
> -- "Render unto Caesar" -- so I'm not sure it's so simply as a conflict 
> between Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman thought (and which period of 
> Graeco-Roman thought? Socratic, Platonic (and neo-Platonic) and 
> Aristotelian ethics all weighed in on the subject of corrupt authorities).

Bart:
	Well, yeah. We don't really have the capability of going to a few 
thousand words on this list. But "Render Unto Caesar" also has a coda of 
"Render unto God". The civil government can control the day to day 
business of keeping society in order, but it can't dictate morality. 	
	Harry sticks to what he knows is right and wrong, regardless of what 
the Ministry says.

	bart