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From: awex@wxlvax.UUCP (Alan Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Good and evil
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Date: Sat, 7-Jan-84 17:38:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  7 17:38:04 1984
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Okay, greg, I won't burn your mailbox, I'll just ask a couple of 
questions:  if, ask you suppose, there once was a man who "lived on easy
street" and made one mistake, why am I still being punished for it?  Why 
are all the babies who are too young to know what's going on still being
punished for it?  

Let me preface my last question with a story:  my aunt-in-law-to-be (my
finacee's aunt) has a farm in Montana.  On this farm she raises chickens.
One would think that she does not like foxes, for they steal chickens to
eat (just like the bunnies and coyotes you talk of).  But worst of all,
she hates minks.  Why?  Because if a mink gets into a henhouse, it will
kill every chicken in there, eating one or none.  Now the question: what
was the mink's "original sin?"  This seems a logical question to me, since
you seem to blame the evil of mens' conduct on *their* original sin.

--Alan Wexelblat (the vanishing philosopher)
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