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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Subject: Re: Steve Adams blows it again (was: Finkelstein & souls)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:58:36 GMT
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- Oh my....my name in lights, courtesy of Dr. Peter Nykios...
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <adams.724610957@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
-
- >>lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >
- >>>In a previous article, cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) wrote:
- >>>
- >>>>Then Loren F can explain why he thinks religion is a fit
- >>>>basis for legislation.
- >>>
- >>>You want another example of religion being a fit basis for legislation?
- >>>Here are a few
- >>>
- >>>"Thou shalt not kill"
- >>>"Thou shalt not steal"
- >>Neither of these have ANY religious requirement as a basis. Depriving
- >>someone of their life of property does not require a god to call it a bad
- >>thing. They can stand on their own without religious backing. They are
- >>rational.
- >
- >>>In parts of New Jersey, it is Illegal for most stores to be open on sunday.
- >>This is garbage law. It's a leftover from the theocratic past...and most
- >>BlueLaws have been overturned as unconstitutional. This law can't stand on
- >>it's own without religious backing.
- >
- >>>In most states having more then 1 spouse is illegal.
- >>Government interference. These laws too, should be overturned or repealed.
- >
- >Could Steve Adams be contemplating conversion to the Latter Day Saints, or
- >Islam?!
-
- Hardly. The issue here is GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE. If the Latter Day
- Saints or Muslims want tens, scores or hundreds of wives, so be it. It is
- none of the government's business.
-
- >Don't go away yet: this is NOT what the subject line refers to. However,
- >it *is* my personal opinion that Steve blew it here too.
-
- How so? Exactly why should the government interfere in personal,
- consensual actions? What if they don't get legally married, but live
- together?
-
- >>Only the laws against killing and stealing are good. And guess what? They
- >>don't need religion for them to make sense.
- >
- >Hey, Steve, how come you did not take Loren to task for using the word
- >"killing"? We've had a heated discussion about this one before, and I am
- >of the opinion that "commit unjustifiable homicide" is a better
- >translation, while you seem to be of the "commit murder" party.
- Which of course, I am. In this case, the actual commandment WAS NOT AN
- ISSUE. You fail to see that this is a discussion of secular LAW, and the
- application of religion, NOT a discussion of God's law.
-
- >You even accused me, totally without cause, of ignorance, and when I tried
- >to advance the discussion into this gray area, you deleted my words.
- Fully with cause. You were dead wrong. And I didn't delete any words that
- were germaine to the conversation.
-
- >Yet here
- >you even use the word "killing" yourself, despite the obvious fact
- >that it can be applied to a fetus as well as to a born human.
- In this case, I used the word of the poster. It has NOTHING to do with my
- belief about the Commandment against murder. It was simply showing that
- laws against killing CAN and ARE based on rationale other than the Tanach
- or the NT. You fail to see this.
-
- >You have,
- >on the other hand, stoutly asserted that sometimes abortion is the
- >responsible thing to do, then in the same post turned around and
- >said you were personally opposed to abortion.
- No I have not. I have never, ever said that abortion is *the* responsible
- thing to do. I have said that it is *a* responsible choice. There is a
- big difference.
-
- >When will you get your act together, Steve?
- My "act" is much more together than yours is, or ever will be. Look at the
- CONTEXT.
-
- -Steve
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