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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: nihil who wrote (34381)4/11/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
> Morality was probably self-enforcing in many societies in the past. In ancient Israel, for instance, the Law
provided that persons who violated various moral law were to be executed -- usually stoned. When Jesus
rescued the woman taken in adultery they were about to stone her to death. Sometimes the immoral person
would be exiled. Morality was defined by the community <

Minor quibble. Morality in these instances was not defined by the community, but defined TO it by a priest class. This class invoked and aggressively guarded a claim to a supernatural mandate.
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