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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
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 20:41:10 1985
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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