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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Sex by numbers (really, prostitution)
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 08:58:52 EST
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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS] at U of Waterloo), responding
to a prior posting by ``Gypsy'' about prostitution,

>> it's against biblical (gasp!) teachings.  Is there a religion
>> that supports prostituion?

writes:

> There isn't now, to my knowledge, but there was at least one of the
> minor greek goddesses who looked after prostitutes of the time.

We have a gross problem here that is unresolvable along the current lines
of discussion.  I.e., are you going to argue that it is Biblically immoral,
or that it's immoral according to all religions?  Here's why: a reason the
Bible explicitly mentions prostitution is that, during the time when the
Israelites were crossing the desert to the promised land, they were always
encountering worshippers of another deity who God was opposed to (since the
Religion of the Hebrews is a monotheistic religion), Baal; and one of the
major parts of Baalism was temple prostitution.  So you just can't make
this ``argument from religion;'' it will have to be an argument from a
particular religion.
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