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- From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.035223.24222@netsys.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:52:23 GMT
- References: <01GSKZND44DS0019M3@opie.bgsu.edu>
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- In article <01GSKZND44DS0019M3@opie.bgsu.edu> CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
- >Greetings,
- >
- >I find a deeply held belief in "racial purity" no more difficult to stomach
- >than a deeply held belief in a "personal savior," in "original sin," in
- >"Jesus, son of god," in "the divine right of kings," in "free-market
- >economics," or in a host of other things in which lots of people at one time
- >or another have held dear.
-
- Except that beliefs in "racial purity" (and similar views) are more
- readily translated into direct action *against* others than are beliefs
- in a "free market" or "personal saviour." Some deeply held beliefs are
- more distasteful and immediately dangerous to non-believers than others.
-
- Jim (But I don't deeply believe this) Thomas
-