Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihu1m!jho From: jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Nausea ad Nauseum Message-ID: <493@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:41:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1m.493 Posted: Mon Jul 8 20:41:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:37:34 EDT References: <622@sfmag.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 30 I am reposting this. My previous posting misfired. > > ... The point being: you have based your views on > > what is right on the content of Torah. But who on earth are you to say > > that other people are obliged to hold that same view? You feel bound > > to those laws for yourself, and that is fine. But to claim that OTHERS > > *must* adhere to them because you do is ludicrous. > > 1 - Believe it or not, I don't expect anyone to accept the Torah > I think you miss the point. The issue is not whether the Torah is valid or not valid. The question is whether others *must* be forced to adhere to it. > > 4 - When addressing net.religion.jewish, I feel free to express > Torah views, as such, without having to prove the axioms of Torah > belief as a precondition for expressing these views. If there are > atheistic contributors, I would hope that they remain cognizant > of the context of this net, just as I would if I were writing in > net.atheism. > > 5 - Within net.religion,jewish, I am willing to engage in > discourse with anyone who is sincerely interested in exploring > the Jewish religion. Let me remind you that this is net.jewish.religion and not net.religion.jewish.orthodox (or net.religion.jewish.torah). Please do not define other people Jewishness. -- Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho