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- From: sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Behold, I am a Moria freak!
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:19:39 GMT
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- In article <1e9b86INNg37@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, lhk2@po.CWRU.Edu (Lucas H. Kuzma) writes:
- |>
- |> In a previous article, dleland@dante.nmsu.edu (LELAND) says:
- |>
- |> >Has it ever occured to anybody that saying you are a satanist merely because you
- |> >hate christianity is still buying into christianity? You accept the standard
- |> >christian mythos hook line and sinker, you just turn it around and say you
- |> >hate what you should like, trample the cross, ect. If it wasn't so all pervasive
- |> >and all powerful in the mind, you wouldn't go to so much trouble to desecrate
- |> >it. It seems to me that if you really were a "free thinker" you'd make up your own
- |> >religion and your own practices. You'd make up a creation myth and some sort of
- |> >explanation for the world, and so on. And of course you'd be stuck having to
- |> >explain the same problems that every religion has had to explain for so long,
- |> >and good luck to you if you think you can explain it any better than anybody else.
- |> >
- |> >But why waste so much effort on something you hate as much as you say you do?
- |> >If Christianity doesn't control your life, then why are you spending so much time
- |> >trying to bring it down? If I saw someone claim that they weren't controlled by
- |> >a thing, then they spent all their time trying to destroy it, I'd say they were lying.
- |> >
- |>
- |> Oh how true! Yet, why invent a religion at all?
- |> Can one be truly free in thought if one first
- |> invents a set of values and morals to follow?
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- One cannot be anything at all without a set of morals and values to
- follow. A person who truly lacked morals and values would act as if his (or her)
- head were attached to a random number generator. Death would soon follow. the
- question is not WHETHER we should have morals and values, but rather what those
- morals and values should be. BTW, evil is not possible except in the context of
- morals and values.
-
- Steve
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