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- From: strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom)
- Subject: Re: Humanism (personal experience)
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.173314.5476@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:33:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.234637.25943@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <LJMORLY.92Nov20114056@polaris.utu.fi> <1992Nov20.142316.41011@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.142316.41011@watson.ibm.com>, I wrote:
- |> In article <LJMORLY.92Nov20114056@polaris.utu.fi>, ljmorly@polaris.utu.fi (Laura Johanna Manninen) writes:
- |> |> In article <1992Nov19.212119.44482@watson.ibm.com> strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom) writes:
- |> |> > There is also secular humanism, which is very like Jewish humanism
- |> |> > except that God-language is replaced by more rationalist language.
- |> |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- |> |>
- |> |> May I ask you one question: Do you believe in God ?
- |>
- |> Yes. That's why I'm a Jewish humanist.
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- Not to be confused with "Humanistic Judaism", which
- is an agnostic/atheistic sect founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine.
-
- I meant instead the "Jewish humanism" definition discussed
- earlier in this thread, in which God requires of us the duty
- to improve the world for the sake of man. This is a view
- which I think all movements within Judaism share.
-
- But with all these terms floating around, I thought
- it would be safer to clarify.
-
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