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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Rick Julian who wrote (25275)10/6/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: E   of 108807
 
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Regarding the utility of a posited deity and its will as a basis for securing the observance of particular ethical rules over time, giving the rules a hard rock to stand on, you might want to reflect on the fact that it was widely understood that God wanted parents to stone to death a disobedient child. This Old Testament prescription still gleams brightly in the Bible (Deuteronomy); however, the practice, let us hope, is no longer common among Christians or Jews.

What we see is the revision of uselessly destructive commands, however anchored, by rationality developed in the experience of social life.
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