Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Noachic laws (agreeing with Rosen) Message-ID: <349@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 17:28:13 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.349 Posted: Wed Jan 2 17:28:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 07:32:26 EST References: <341@pyuxd.UUCP>, <1307@eosp1.UUCP> <20980044@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.religion:5201 net.religion.jewish:1175 It's amazing how, in one breath, the religious believers, in response to humanist/rationalist/whatever-well-pigeonholed-label-you-wish-to-use philosophy, say that such a philosophy (involving minimal morality, rational basis for societal rules, etc.) interferes with other people's/nations' lifestyles/morality/whatever, because it doesn't allow such societies the "freedom" to impose whatever rules it likes on individuals. And in the next breath, they recite the Noachic laws... -- BRIAN: "No, you've got it all wrong! You don't have to follow me! You don't have to follow ANYONE! You've got to think for yourselves! You are all individuals!" CROWD: "YES, WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!" Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr