Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions

Fernando Q. Gouvêa · 02 Dec 2007, 17:26 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: fqgouvea at colby.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Fernando_Q=2E_Gouv=EAa=22?=)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:26:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions
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thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:

> I bet he tells himself: "Surely God can't blame me any more than he 
> does already for not stopping myself from committing a sin I've 
> already committed in the past." Just as he tells himself: "Surely 
> God will not blame me for breaking my vow of chastity, when that 
> vow will have been made in the future, at the time I break it." 

This is the clearest and best evidence for the "bad Chris" reading, I 
agree.

Fernando

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