Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: djdaneh@pacbell.com (Dan'l DanehyOakes) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: A first cut at Tolerance (long - sorry) Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 04:10:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lindborg@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg) writes: >The entire concept of a life after death didn't enter your >monotheistic belief system till around 250 BCE. Its a Greco-Roman idea >that was incorporated durring the Hellenistic period. I believe it to >be a fabrication of the minds of men. Period. Welll.... Aside from the question of accuracy of your claim about when the idea of an afterlife entered Judaism -- it's pretty clearly present in the story of Saul and the Witch of Endor, for example... Logic and rationalism are also a fabrication of the minds of men. Period. In fact, at least in Western culture, the come from -- wait for it -- the Greeks. Since that's grounds for rejecting the afterlife, I take it it's also grounds for rejecting rationalism? Jeff, mein freund, you're arguing in a circle. And from the rock'n'roll front... "And so with gods and men, the sheep remain inside their pen, until the Shepard leads his flock away..." - Genesis Dan'l Danehy-Oakes