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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: one_less who wrote (17611)4/26/2000 3:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I would actually be fine with Augustine. I would not bar a text for being to some degree religious ... otherwise there would be precious little literature left!

But I see a difference between reading Augustine, talking about how he develops his ideas, maintaining a certain abstractness ... and pasting the Ten Commandments to a wall, unannotated - especially commandments one through four. I think that crosses the line between education and indoctrination.

I have no beef with all my money saying "In God We Trust". This is a no-big to me. I am bemused by the Masonic pyramid on the dollar bill however.

>We just don't agree on what the source is and you apparently don't see it
as a good thing.<

My beef with religion, any religion, is the Exclusivity Clause built into each one. "This is the way of truth; the others range from unfortunate to outright demoniac." With the Exclusivity Clause, religion can and often does breed divisiveness and intolerance. And without the Clause, religion is stripped of meaning, cuz why put up with the strictures if they aren't aiding the selection of good behavior from bad?
My distaste for the Exclusivity Clause, which I deem to be the root of all evil, does make me unavoidably antireligious. My tolerance for religion is pretty much an inverse for how much that religion emphasizes proselytizing.

Oh my; I've rambled. Into the brambles. Owie.
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