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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: George Washington on Religion
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 17:00:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 17:00:42 1984
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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)

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