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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Religion _in_practice_
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.171740.22054@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- References: <jce.722114593@oak.cs.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov19.162459.7647@col.hp.com>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:17:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.162459.7647@col.hp.com> kary@col.hp.com (Dan Kary) writes:
- >Certainly much of religion is ethics. The distinguishing feature is a
- >belief in God (a higher being) and this is a belief common to all religions.
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- This is a very ethnocentric statement.
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- There are religions with no such belief in God.
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- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
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- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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