Is morality just a question of interpretation?
Journalist and former White House staffer Peter Wehner reflects on truth, morality and politics
A version of this article appeared in Peter Wehner’s book The Death of Politics. To see more from him on this topic, watch Peter Wehner discuss faith and politics on Unbelievable? here.
In an essay that appears in a book he edited, Imaginative Apologetics, the theologian Andrew Davison tells about being in India and coming across a person with leprosy. As a Christian, he saw the leper and felt compassion and aided him, much to the unease of Indians. It then struck him that those who believe in karma and reincarnation, as Hindus do, see a leper as someone atoning for past sins and doing what needs to be done for a future, and better… (Register to read the rest of the article)
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