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From: ag5@pucc-i (Dish of the Day)
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Subject: Re: morals, and the low correlation with religion
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 18:59:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 18:59:40 1984
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<<Fire and limestone!  Oh, boy!>>

.>Zonker T. tells us about Dante . . .

.>The best interpretation of the Christian ethic I've ever found is not in
.>the Bible at all, but in Dante's works 'The Inferno', 'The Purgatorio', and
.>'The Paradisio'. Hell is a series of circles to which the sinners are sent
.>based upon the evil of their sins. The outermost circle is reserved for the
.>pious pagans-- their eternal damnation was simply that they lived died
.>without accepting the Christian God and therefore were denied access to
.>heaven. 

	Too bad he didn't point out that, in "The Inferno," I believe that
one can find the Pope in the deepest (innermost) of the series of circles
of hell.  So much for skeletons in the closet!

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