Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!whuxl!whuxi!ktw From: ktw@whuxi.UUCP (WOLMAN) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: re: Supreme Court officializes US idolatry Message-ID: <155@whuxi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 08:37:10 EST Article-I.D.: whuxi.155 Posted: Thu Dec 6 08:37:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:54:04 EST References: <224@usfbobo.UUCP> <295@pyuxd.UUCP>, <988@aecom.UUCP>, <142@ahuta.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.religion:4941 net.religion.jewish:1033 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.