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- From: fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:57:21 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- References: <1992Dec28.201303.15610@cs.tulane.edu> <C0338B.CFD@inews.Intel.COM> <1992Dec30.213930.16097@cs.tulane.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.213930.16097@cs.tulane.edu> goff@pops.navo.navy.mil writes:
- >
- >Maria, I do not know what you mean by orthodox Christian. Either one
- >believes Jesus or one doesn't. You asked for an opinion on the
- >effects of the New Age movement on modern culture and my basic
- >reply was that I thought it would accelerate the moral decline
- >of an essentially Christian culture.
-
- In which case, to quote the 'great historians' Sellars and Yeatman,
- it would probably be 'A GOOD THING'.
-
- >
- >You know, Jesus was so narrow and hardheaded, wasn't he Maria? He
- >just didn't respect anybody's beliefs if they didn't line up with
- >his. You would think he thought he was God...
-
- Since the claims of Christianity must be taken on faith (in other
- words they are not allowed to be susceptible to the kinds of tests a
- social science, which anthropology is, administers), they are no
- better than that of any other apodictic belief system.
-
- >
- >You are mistaken. The Constitution is based on biblical principles.
- >We take for granted the impact Christian principles have given to
- >society and are spoiled to it's precepts and ideals.
-
- Religion being a private matter -- as enshrined in the First
- Amendment -- is based on no biblical principle.
-
- >
- >There is no doubt that they might have even been influenced by Shakespeare
- >but the overall plan for this country (Constitution) bears the mark
- >of a higher power.
-
- Given that the drafters of the Constitution were influenced by
- (inter alia) Locke, Machiavelli, Aristotle, Polybius, Harrington,
- Montesquieu, Sidney, and Milton, it looks to me like the 'higher
- power' is the indomitable human intellect.
- >
- >Ah, you might have *studied* the bible, but do you *live* it?
-
- Argument by insult, how Christian.
-
-
-
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- She leans across the hilltop: see, the light!
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