Intergalactic Summit

This sounds suspiciously like a challenge to the entirety of the Gallente Federation...

I'd ask your fogiveness, if you would grant it, as pressing business of little import to you, but still demanding my attention has kept me from responding as soon as I would have liked. But God's providence is as much a gift as anything and I am grateful for His hand in even these seminal minor matters of circumstance. I have been reading with some interest the responses to my minor missive, and am grateful to find a few moments here to respond.

I'd note, firstly, that the hooting from vocal minority is as welcome as any other. Friends, there is power in God, as our glorious Empire asserts at every moment. We welcome our cynics. We doubt that our words will sway many, but a sick person should not leave the clinic because he coughs. We labor here as physicians of the soul and there is little danger that the symptoms of their particular sickness can spread to us.

Let us be grateful that they hear us. A prophet is not much use in the void

However, amidst the noise were some signals and it seems worthy to me to adders some or these. Let's look first at the idea that poor behavior by one, or some, or even all invalidates the call to righteousness. It of course, does not - rather it heightens it. It grieves me That some see sin in others as a license in themselves, and not as a lesson. God is not so easily mocked. One is not a faithful supplication simply because they claim it. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Similarly, God's call to standards are not bound to believers, but intrinsic to His holiness. Just as a royal Herald does not dethroned the king if they pronounce teeason, foolish of even sinful self-professed believers do not void the call to righteousnes..

And to the soul who finds umbrage at the protectively custody of one for another, that is a big topic. I have a brief homily we may share next time where we can look at theses things together. In a similar vein, it is indeed a challenge to all the Gallente Federation: it's a challenge to all. I suspect that you're deflecting by making this about something other than ethical maturity. I invite you to reflect on your behavior, not on imaginings of non existent threats

I look forward to more conversation and direct you all to my comms networks for messages if you wish further discussion in a more conducive manner.

Slave of God
Theon Kethem

Ethical maturity's an interesting concept, Theon, but it does tend to fall apart a little when you try to define it. Which act is ethicially 'mature': to attempt to push your beliefs and your culture on another people, subjugating them and exploiting them for your benefit, or leaving them uneducated regarding God and salvation, and dooming them to—as we've recently been told—not eternal hellfire, but oblivion?

Does one individual have an ethical right to seek to force another to continue to live, even if that person actively seeks to die? Who gets to decide that? And on what basis do they claim the ethical authority to claim their judgment is more qualified than that of the person in question?

Remember, claims of that sort need some kind of quantifiable evidence to support them.

Please do, before the Hellpigs get it!

People will act according to their own understanding of the world. It seems a little futile to ask them not to.

Maybe it's a mistake to hold everybody to the same standard of ethics to begin with?

Pigs. From hell.

I deserve that.