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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: If that's all there is, my friend...
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 08:34:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 08:34:42 1984
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Well, I never though I'd be rushing to Rich Rosen's defense.

If Jeff Sargent and others like him can see no point to life if
there is no promise of anything other than our present physical
existence, perhaps they ought to reconsider their ethics. 

Righteousness is its own reward.  We should not be bribed into it by
the promise of eternal (spiritual) life.  Seeing no purpose to life if
it is temporary is equivalent to asking "What's in it for me?".

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david