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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X)
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Subject: Re: Schools and Churches (really 'support' for areligious moral codes)
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 10:11:44 EDT
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Paul Dubuc:

>                     This is a transcendent standard, one that subjects
>that king to the law as well as the peasant.  If the law is not based
>on a transcendent authority, then it is whatever the king (or government
>in today's terms) says it is; those in power define right and wrong.

This sounds like the Christian God.  The one "in power" determines
right and wrong.  Why is this less arbitrary?  The Christian "king"
doesn't follow the morals he preaches, why should I?


			Scott J. Berry