Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!lkk From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion,net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: George Washington on Religion Message-ID: <2833@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 17:00:42 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2833 Posted: Fri Oct 5 17:00:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:40:35 EDT References: <17@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 From Martillo (is he really at MIT now!?!?): >Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, >religion and morality are indispensable supports....And let us with >caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without >religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined >education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both >forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of >religious principle. > >--- George Washington, Farewell Address Is this supposed to be evidence in favor of the claim that morality requires religion? My favorite quotation (I made it up myself) is: Quotations don't prove a damn thing. George Washington was a slaveholder. Looks like that wasn't the only thing he was mistaken about. -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk ARPA: lkk@mit-mc