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From: ktw@whuxi.UUCP (WOLMAN)
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Subject: Re: re: Supreme Court officializes US idolatry
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 08:37:10 EST
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Some questions/comments about E. Leeper's posting:

1. There are indeed 10 commandments.  There are also 7 Noachide
laws given to the WORLD by God after the Flood.  These commandments
are incumbent not merely to Jews but also on righteous Gentiles.
They are, then, laws of universal civilization.

2. Why does posting to net.religion somehow divorce an issue from
its "Jewish content"?  A religious issue of primary interest to
Jews may also be of interest--intellectual or otherwise--to 
gentiles; the reverse may also be the case.  Leeper's posting
seemed to posit (however inadvertently) a split between Jewish
and religious values.