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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Evolving Religions
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 13:00:54 EDT
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>>...  Atheistic belief systems (e.g. humanism)
>>do not require a deity, or any divine intervention.
>>It is not a threat to acknowledge their natural evolutionary origins.
>>However, Christianity (for example) must, by its very doctrines,
>>be more than a natural, evolving belief system.
>>Yet, I claim it is not.
>>Therefore, humanism may have objective validity,
>>while Christianity, as it stands today, cannot.
>>Is there any theistic religion that cannot be explained by
>>natural evolutionary processes?  If so,  where do I sign up?

> How does the requirement that a belief system have no deity (Humanism
> isn't necessarily atheistic.  I assume that you mean that Humanism may
> have objective validity *if* it is atheistic) insure that it may have
> objective validity? [DUBUC]

By refraining from speculative notions about deities that cannot be proven,
a belief system sticks to the real world of real people and things.  That
simple.
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					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr