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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
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Subject: Re: objections to humanism
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 16:09:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 16:09:13 1984
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Two follow-ups to my earlier posting in which I pointed out that most Nazis
considered themselves Christians:

1.  It was not my intention to blame the Holocaust on Christianity.  I was
    merely pointing out the flaw in the argument raised by Martillo, who
    said that a Nazi could have considered himself a humanist (with the
    implication that this was a defect in humanism, rather than in the Nazi).

2.  Predictably, the objection has been raised that a Nazi could not REALLY
    have been a Christian, even if he considered himself one.  This is fine
    with me, as long as you apply the criterion uniformly to humanists, Jews,
    Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, ....  As long as it is understood
    that Christianity is not special, deserving a different set of criteria
    than other religions/value systems, the only problem is that you can no
    longer take anyone's word as to his/her true beliefs.  Who is to judge?
-- 

Dave Seaman
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"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."