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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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drgade		07/09/05
It wasn't God who coined those phrases. It was people who like to remain secret in their wrongdoings. Contrary to most Christian moralists, I believe that avoiding reporting incidents which others want to know is perfectly righteous before God. The difference has to do with the authority of the one asking for the report. IF THE ONE ASKING HAS NO AUTHORITY TO ASK THE QUESTION, WE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO TELL THEM WHAT THEY WISH TO KNOW. For example: If a teacher asks one their students if their father was drunk last night, the student can falsely say "no". The teacher has no right(authority) to ask or expect a true answer and the student really has no right to report on their father. There are enough who DO have authority. But some only imagine that they have authority over others when they do not have it in the eyes of God who alone establishes all authority which must be submitted to. Rom 13:1 13:1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. (from New International Version)

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