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- From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices and Secular Reasoning
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.235727.5838@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec30.162502.6756@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <C07oBz.F74@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:57:27 GMT
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- In article <C07oBz.F74@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:
- >ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec30.162502.6756@asl.dl.nec.com> dillhoff@aslws01.asl.dl.nec.com (Doug Dillhoff) writes:
- >>> In article <1992Dec29.233922.2539@netcom.com> harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
- >>>
- >>All people are asking is that unless you can come up with some
- >>*secular* reason for why their lifestyle choice is bad, you grant
- >>them the same rights they are willing to grant you: the right to
- >>live their life without persecution.
- >
- >Why is *secular* reasoning superior to religious reasoning?
- >
-
- Because not everyone gives a damn about religion. The majority of the
- world population isn't Christian. (Although Catholicism is the
- largest single religion). Besides, 'religious reasoning' sounds like
- an oxymoron.
-
- Andrew Jackson had a lot to say about avoiding religious arguments
- pertaining to legislation.
-
- > [loads of opinionated attacks on secular reasoning deleted]
-
- Look, whatever your opinion of secular reasoning, religiously
- justified 'reasoning' has a pretty poor history as well. The Catholic
- church is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths alone. Look
- at Hezbollah for a good example of religious 'reasoning'.
-
- -Howard
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