People often place a great reliance on sources to "prove" their views. To do that is to misunderstand sources - and to completely neglect what I can only call common sense.
For example, today I heard, once again, the speech by Roosevelt in response to the Japanese surprise attack Dec 7, 1941. Ot cpnjured up all that was implied this "day of infamy" - good guys, bad guys, good, evil - with all the hints of racism, of Japanese natural cruely and deception (slanty eyes) and American purity.
I have been reading Mark Mittleberg's Choosing Your Faith, and came across his argument that God is bound by what he calls "the law of noncontradiction".
I wish that the Canadian Public school system would teach philosophy and logic at a younger age... Touching on it briefly in grade 12 doesn't count. It sure would be nice if the people that I pick fights with had the same tools that I do. I guess I wouldn't be able to so thoroughly trounce and browbeat my opponents if that were the case.
Okay, maybe we should keep things the way they are...