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- From: max@admin.mport.COM (Max)
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- Subject: Re: -REAL- Christians dont know god is dead
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:39:51 GMT
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- sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner) writes:
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- >[ max@admin.mport.COM (Max) corrects my misunderstanding of his post . . .]
-
- >My apologies. I mistakenly thought that when you typed
- >|> ben claimes that its not just a belief in god, it "TRUE".
- >you meant "ben claims that it's not just a belief in god, it's 'TRUE'",
- >i.e. that you had changed the subject to belief in God, and were no
- >longer discussing secular arguments for religiously based moral beliefs
- >(usenet threads have been known to change subjects from time to time,
- >after all). Perhaps the change you made to the subject line influenced
- >my reading of your intentions.
-
- admittedly, a little over the top on my part.
-
- > Now that I understand what you were saying . . . I think I agree
- >with you, after a fashion -- not about God, of course, but that
- >religiously based moral claims don't carry weight outside the
- >religious tradition from which they come. How you do construct a
- >debate about moral issues when there's no common basis for morality I
- >haven't figured out, however.
- >Steve Schaffner sschaff@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
-
- it is a difficult question. i find it all the more frustrating due to the
- easy overlap in morality between various religions and philosophies. that
- is, the discussion of moral beliefs works fine until one party or the other
- stops using arguments that are subject to debate. in most ways, it seems
- that most moral codes agree more than they disagree.
-
- -max
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