Re: Religion _in_practice_

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From: Ken Arromdee
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:17

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In article <1992Nov19.162459.7647@col.hp.com> kary@col.hp.com (Dan Kary) writes:
>Certainly much of religion is ethics.  The distinguishing feature is a
>belief in God (a higher being) and this is a belief common to all religions.

This is a very ethnocentric statement.

There are religions with no such belief in God.
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)

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