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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Noachic laws (disagreeing with Rosen)
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Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 15:14:17 EST
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Toby Robison makes some good points about how having a standard for
outsiders actually protects them to some extent.  However, with reference to
the Noachian law, note that it actually legitimizes the prejudice that
polytheists are bad people and it is therefore legitimate to discriminate
against them.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.