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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Hedonism moved from net.singles
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 22:55:32 EDT
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>	Well put, Jeff; but--what's wrong with being (partially) a hedonist?

This isn't that easy to answer.  I'll just quote (approximately) C.S. Lewis,
who points out in "The Screwtape Letters" that God created all kinds of
pleasures which humans can enjoy without His minding in the least.  The
demons can merely persuade humans to "take these pleasures at times, or in
ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden."  I don't totally like the word
"forbidden", but I don't totally disagree with it; God came out and told us
not to do things that were not good for us, as any father would; and like
any children, we eventually discover, as we grow up, that these things which
were couched as stern commands and proscriptions are really just warnings to
avoid screwing ourselves over.


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-- Jeff Sargent
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"...I've got to be where my spirit can run free..."