Comments on: speaking of celebrity authors http://www.sally-apokedak.com/whispers_of_dawn/2006/03/speaking-of-celebrity-authors/ on young adult books Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sally Apokedak http://www.sally-apokedak.com/whispers_of_dawn/2006/03/speaking-of-celebrity-authors/#comment-399 Sally Apokedak Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:07:44 +0000 http://paraklesis.com/childrens_publishing_news/?p=177#comment-399 Oh, and here, Steve, I'll give you some ammo. I'm fat and middle-aged. So now you can write off anything I say about sexy young women as being the envious rantings of a bitter old woman. I believe that Madonna is amoral because I believe she really thinks there is nothing wrong with the way she lives. I believe that she's convinced herself that God is fine with what she is doing. If you want to pick at that, it's not a hill I'm willing to die on. She may not be amoral. She may simply be immoral. The Bible says, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." It tells us that in the same measure that we use when we measure out mercy, so will mercy be measured out to us. I thought it was more merciful to judge her as being amoral--not having any concept of right and wrong--than to judge her as being immoral--knowing full well that what she does is wrong and doing it anyway. I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. Oh, and here, Steve, I’ll give you some ammo. I’m fat and middle-aged. So now you can write off anything I say about sexy young women as being the envious rantings of a bitter old woman.

I believe that Madonna is amoral because I believe she really thinks there is nothing wrong with the way she lives. I believe that she’s convinced herself that God is fine with what she is doing.

If you want to pick at that, it’s not a hill I’m willing to die on. She may not be amoral. She may simply be immoral.

The Bible says, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” It tells us that in the same measure that we use when we measure out mercy, so will mercy be measured out to us. I thought it was more merciful to judge her as being amoral–not having any concept of right and wrong–than to judge her as being immoral–knowing full well that what she does is wrong and doing it anyway. I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt.

]]> By: Steve http://www.sally-apokedak.com/whispers_of_dawn/2006/03/speaking-of-celebrity-authors/#comment-398 Steve Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:58:22 +0000 http://paraklesis.com/childrens_publishing_news/?p=177#comment-398 Carefully Sally, your thinly disguised hatred for mankind is showing. Who are you to judge these women as 'amoral' just because they don't subscribe to your particular moral code. Doesn't your own medieval faith state 'Judge nor less ye be judged"? Carefully Sally, your thinly disguised hatred for mankind is showing. Who are you to judge these women as ‘amoral’ just because they don’t subscribe to your particular moral code. Doesn’t your own medieval faith state ‘Judge nor less ye be judged”?

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