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- From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
- Subject: Re: Let Keep the population down please!!!!!!!
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:08:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.041148.5374@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1eg0utINN6g0@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
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- In article <1eg0utINN6g0@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank
- O'Dwyer) wrote:
- >
- > I note that the Christian religions seem to offer salvation as a remedy for
- > original sin, and the penalty for original sin is not particularly severe.
-
- Beg pardon? Eternal damnation, outer darkness, wailing, gnashing of teeth?
- Not _particularly_ severe?
-
- > The Church of Reason, on the other hand, offers a new kind of original sin -
- > a z/e/f is guilty of the crime of non-sentience, a crime for which it is
- > guilty until proven innocent. And the techno-nihilists are not nearly so
- > forgiving...
-
- Nonsense. Non-sentience is certainly not a crime, but neither is it any
- particular virtue.
-
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- Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
- C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.
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