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- From: jce@cs.scarolina.edu (James C. Evans)
- Subject: Re: Religion _in_practice_
- Message-ID: <jce.722114593@oak.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:23:13 GMT
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- kary@col.hp.com (Dan Kary) writes:
- >Getting involved in plannang and conducting Scouting activities is
- >certainly a lot more work than just going, but it will take that level of
- >involvement to change religious services from basically christian to truely
- >non-sectarian.
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- >I encourage all christian Scouters to make a similar effort and
- >I encourage non-christian Scouters to take on an activist role in helping make
- >religious services at Scouting events inclusive of their religious beliefs.
-
- What is the point? Is a religious service really a religious service
- if you water it down to those beliefs that are in common to everyone?
- Do you honestly think that the intersection of those sets is not null?
- If you say it is not null, I venture
- to say that what is left is not religion at all, but ethics.
- How do you handle the problem of people who don't want to discuss
- their religious ideas with you, and, in fact, may not want to discuss
- with you the fact that they don't feel comfortable discussing it with you?
-
- Chris Evans
- jce@ocean.geol.scarolina.edu
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