Re: MEMES: superstitions

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@calweb.com)
Date: Thu Jan 23 1997 - 16:35:17 MST


>RB>Those memes are great if OTHER people believe them. Was it William James
>RB>who said that the ideal world would be one in which everyone ELSE was a
>RB>Christian?

RM> Really? William James' ideal world involves having no free love. paid sex,
RM> contraception, abortion rights - or anything else in the realm of human
RM> relationships specifically fordibben by that meme set. Not exactly my
RM> picture of heaven.

That's an annoying problem with real-life Christians--they have a bad
habit of passing laws. Jesus himself forgave the prostitute (though
he condoned classifying the business as a sin), but other Christians
have generally not been so accommodating.



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