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Snitching	excon	07/09/05
Hello Christians: Snitching - tattling - ratting - kissing and telling, buring your sources, etc. What is the Christian/moral stand on the subject? Why? Do you keep secrets? Would you go to jail to keep a secret? Is it good or bad to do so? What do you teach your kids? If it's good, why are all the terms describing one who does so, so reviling? If it's good, we should call it kissing or loving. excon
Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 07/10/05 8:15 am: Hello again, Christians: Ok, I got it. Saving a life or property is not snitching. I really didn't think it was. But you people seem to waffell quite a bit. But, my question was about snitching, per se. The real ugly kind. Do you tell the teacher when you saw somebody cheating on a test? Do you call the cops if you see a neighbor smoking dope. Do you rat out your accomplice to save yourself from....... Do you teach your children that informing on people is good or is it bad? What is it? I'm clear on my position. Are you clear on yours? excon
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curious98		07/10/05
I don't understand how there are many who consider there are several types of ethics and moral when talking about Christian principles and atheists ones. In the western world (we have to exclude other cultures) there are a set of moral and ethich rules that are valid for everyone whether religious or atheist. If you stop to watch them intently you will see that our Ten Commandments just follow what I would could the Natural Laws, which I supposed are followed by non religious people, provided they are normal people, of course. As to keeping secret what is not to be disclosed there is something, you may have heard of, called secret of confession. Also when not referring to the clergy, it is also a part of what is called "professional deontology", which medical doctors, lawyers or newspersons should abide by. Curious98

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