From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 17:12:52 MDT
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From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>
To: extropians <extropians@tick.javien.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: American Education (answer to Greg Burch)
> Sometimes I also think that the typical extropian rejection of religion
> has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Yeah we've excised the
> mystical crap but maybe we've also tossed the civil behavior,
> fellowship, charity, and compassion (admittedly, historically quite
> limited) along with it.
"Civil behavior, fellowship, charity, and compassion", and good manners, aren't religious values, they are simply good sense.
Various preists and other plunderers have hijacked these quailites to mask their untoward intentions. Religious beliefs no more
cause human dignity than wet streets cause rain.
Forrest
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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