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- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- Karen asks:
- >Commonly held by WHOM?
-
- The problem with PM's position is that he wants everyone to adopt
- *his* standards of piety. I respect his right to hold whatever
- beliefs he chooses and, were I a guest in his house or in the
- religious community of which he is a member, I would respect their
- beliefs and not insult them. However, if I do not believe something
- to be sacred, then I cannot profane it, nor can I be sacriligious
- unless I am operating within the religious community. I feel certain
- that Peter does not adhere to the dietary restrictions of the various
- competing spiritual/religious/ethical communities to his brand of
- Christianity. Nor need he; he is not bound to them by profound belief.
-
- I will not, as a matter of common courtesy, seek out his holy places
- and defame them; by the same token, if what he considers sacred is
- a part of my everyday cultural experience and I do not consider them
- sacred, I have no oblication to tret them as though they did.
-
- JAG
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