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- From: eggertj@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41)
- Subject: Re: Complete verification of Jesus
- In-Reply-To: carroll@bifur.cis.udel.edu's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:22:05 GMT
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:32:40
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- In article <1993Jan25.172205.13550@udel.edu> carroll@bifur.cis.udel.edu (Mark C. Carroll) writes:
- > (Can someone help me find the citation, I believe from Rambam, that it
- > is better to perform Mitzvot without belief, than to have belief but
- > not perform the Mitzvot?)
-
- I've heard this before too, and think that it is a fundamental
- theological mistake. With this tenet, religion is reduced to a
- practice, learnable by machine, requiring only outward action and not
- inward understanding. Even worse, religion can be forced on a person,
- resulting in outward practice but inward resentment. Without belief,
- any reason for practice depends on outward pressure (peer acceptance)
- alone. It makes for a barren religion.
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- =Jim eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)
-