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From: ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.religion.jewish,net.nlang.india
Subject: Are you tempted to respond to this article?
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 15:21:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 15:21:52 1985
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For a presentation I am making in the near future, I would
like to solicit some ideas from the net.religion.* community.

Assumptions:

	1) with respect to some supreme entity/concept, there
	   is a set of actions considered good, virtuous, etc.
	
	2) there is an opposing set of bad,evil,rotten actions.

Query:
	What is the direct mechanism by which people are induced to
	knowingly commit actions from group 2)?  Rephrasing this
	in christian terms: what is 'temptation'?

Comments and Possible Ideas:

Does the devil/Satan/etc place thoughts or desires in our minds? 
Does the damager-god place us in a combined set of cirumstances
	that is conducive to group-2) behavior?
Is human nature so corrupt that there is no need for active external 
	influence?


No doubt other religious traditions deal with additional factors,
which is why I am posting this to multiple newsgroups.  Please
send me your ideas BY MAIL - no need to spread this all over the
net - and I will summarize responses if there is interest.  Christians, 
Moslems/Muslims(?), Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Humanists, 
Malthiests, Thelemites, Wiccans, Toddists, and above all, members of 
the Church of St. Clint are invited to respond. By Mail.

-- 
Cameron C. Carson
Distributed Systems Group
Boston University ACC

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