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From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: net.religion: A Modest Proposal
Message-ID: <324@mit-eddi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 16:42:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 26 16:42:00 1983
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Part of my religion---which blends Secular Humanism, Unitarianism,
and Zen---says that self-confidence is the first commandment.
I'm not worried about any twit who takes it upon himself to 
show me that I'm a twit.  I'm not worried about getting attacked
because my beliefs seem weird to someone who has no basis for
understanding them.  I feel that anyone who attacks my religion
lacks sufficient confidence in their own (sort of like 'misery
loves company' is 'insecurity loves company'), so making mine
look silly makes them feel better.  What sad people.  I would
recommend to everyone who is dismayed by people tearing down
their religion that reading Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange
Land" might make you feel better.  Like Mike says, the
Martians have just one word that translates to the English
words: science, philosophy, religion.  (Notice that many of us
send the same article to both net.religion and net.philosophy).
I suppose that's enough flaming for a non-net.flame group.
			Randy
			rh@mit-eddie