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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Rush Courts the FAAAR Right
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.225320.20754@s1.gov>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:53:20 GMT
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- I don't see how discussing homosexual relationships is a bad
- thing. After all, some people are that way.
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- As to the Ten-Commandments controversy, the think I find
- offensive about this complaint of "can't put them up" is the
- insinuation that only the Bible has ever taught that murder and theft
- are bad. Murder and theft are widely frowned upon, at least inside of
- social groupings (outside them is another question entirely; the Bible
- states that the Israelites' conquest of the "Promised Land" was a
- proud history of them murdering and stealing on a massive scale).
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- What would the Bible-thumpers say about putting up copies of
- the Buddha's sayings? After all, he taught such things as:
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- Do not kill any living being
- Do not take what is not given to you
- Do not speak falsely
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- Now can anyone object to teachings like _these_?
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- And does this mean that we ought to make Buddhism the official
- religion of our public schools _just_ to teach "values"?
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
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