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- From: entropy@world.std.com (The Entropic one)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices and Secular Reasoning
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <C07oBz.F74@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan2.230323.29355@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <C095nK.82y@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:15:14 GMT
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- In article <C095nK.82y@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:
- >lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
- >
- >>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:
- >
- >>>Why is *secular* reasoning superior to religious reasoning?
- >
- >>I'm sitting 10 feet from a machine that can produce 3d images of your
- >>internal organs, it was designed by secular reasoning.
- >
- >And it was designed in a country founded upon a belief in God.
-
- I'm not sure which religion is most common in Japan but I doubt you would
- consider it "your" god.
-
- >The
- >country founded upon atheism and a belief in man no longer exists.
-
- Russia was founded upon marxism not atheism. Atheism generally implies
- critical thought, something which Russia wasn't famous for.
-
- >>>What about infibulation, the practice of mutilating female genitalia
- >>>that is common in Africa? Secularly speaking, we have no right to
- >>>condemn another culture's practices.
- >
- >>Who said that?
- >
- >Secular logic.
-
- Strange the secular ethical systems I know of say nothing about this.
- How do you derive this from utilitarian ethics?
-
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