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- From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:05:21 GMT
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- In article <1hvjgsINNah5@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- |> fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands) writes:
- |> > First, the country was not founded on Christian values -- it was deliberately
- |> > set up as a secular society, in order to not have the religious wars
- |> > and persecutions common in Europe.
- |>
- |> Partially right; it was set up to not have a state church, but it
- |> was also largely based on what can be called 'Christian values'.
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- And Bhuddist values, and Deist values, and Muslim values and
- Greek values, and Hebrew values, and Hindu values, and
- Confucian values, and Taoist values, and Secular Humanist
- values.
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- How about calling them basic HUMAN values? That's what
- they are. Since when do christians have a lock on morals?
- At least since the Crusades or the Inquisition.
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- Jared Dahl
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