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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Noachic laws
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 15:25:58 EST
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A number of people have pointed out that the list of 7 "universal" laws
from Brunson (or perhaps Yiri, hard to tell without annotation) were what
Jews refer to as the 7 Noachic laws, laws that apply not just to Jews but
to all people.  (Jews having an additional 606.)

To which I would ask:  do you adhere to the 102 Frangelistic laws of the
Bufadelics, laws that apply to other people but not to them?  Or to the
9 Holy Commandments of the Ubizmatists, which apply to you whether or not
you are an Ubizmatist?

The point being:  what right does any religion have to impose arbitrary laws
on people not under its domain?  Do YOU adhere to the laws that other religions
say that you must, even though you are not a member of their sect?

Which brings up the more important point:  to those who would claim I am
attacking Christianity---I am attacking the right of ANY religion to impose
its moral code on those who don't hold to *its* beliefs.  Christianity has
more of a "track record" to point to in this area.  But given an enclosed
environment in which any given religion sees itself as "right", such imposition
(unwarranted as it may be), in areas of religion and of life itself, will
appear.  Look at how some Jews in Israel feel it is a form of "divine destiny"
to usurp the property/land of non-Jews to expand *their* realm because *they*
are Jews.  (A modern day example of America's "manifest destiny", which played
the same "game" with the native American Indians.)

Thus, Christians aren't being "attacked" just as "persecution of their beliefs"
(as some would love to make it out to be), but rather because they feel that
their being the majority/status quo gives them some level of impositional
"rights".  Remember that.
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"Send the recording back into the medium."	     Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr