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From: hutch@dadla-b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: The Bible and the Constitution
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Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 16:09:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 11 16:09:02 1983
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In reply to rabbit!jj's assertion that personal ethos is not related to
personal religious beliefs -

Please explain why you think this.  I personally think (from experience and
observation) that a personal ethic can be developed from religious belief
just as well as from any other influecnces.  It apparently cannot be developed
without a cultural context of some kind, as far as I can see.

In any case, as an example, my own personal ethical system was sharply
modified when I changed my religious beliefs.  My moral stances were
less modified, from my viewpoint.

(Shall we get into the differences between ethics and morals?)

Steve Hutchison
Tektronix Logic Analyzers