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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (52441)	7/5/2002 7:36:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I disagree. As for MLK what he did was secular. His reasons for doing the secular thing may have been religious, but it was a secular thing he accomplished (imo) and a secular thing we celebrate. People riding on the back of a bus is not religious. People prohibited from going to good schools is not religious. People being unable to eat in restaurants and drink at water fountains is not religious. Imo, of course. You can say that everything can be made religious, but that would only be true if one had the will to make everything religious. That argues for the relativistic world which I believe in- where we all basically live in the worlds our beliefs make possible. Our founding fathers had the will (and belief) necessary to divide the world into a secular world controlled by equal laws applied without regard to religion, and in the absence of religion to a greater extent than ever before in human history, and a religious world as free as possible from the encroachment of the law. I support that division. You may support any view of the universe you like. You may see everything as religious if you choose to. But I prefer as crisp a division as possible.