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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion
Subject: Re: a cross-posting request
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 16:18:38 EDT
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In article <244@frog.UUCP> frog!tdh writes:

>I would appreciate avoiding cross-posting to religious
>newgroups from net.philosophy .  Insofar as those who have
>succumbed to the idiocy of religion are willing to employ
>the arguments from faith that are the essence of religion,
>the level of activity in this newsgroup will tend to rise
>and the quality of argument will degenerate.  Insofar as
>they do not argue from faith, they are not being religious.
>Let those who are interested in philosophy get it other than
>from net.religion .

This is a really silly argument, but I agree with the conclusion.  Let's keep
arguments and discussions about philosophy out of the religion groups, while
we're at it (e.g. the current morality/survival argument).

>Philosophy climbed back out of the religious abyss centuries
>ago.  I'd hate to see it shoved back in, here or elsewhere.

It almost doesn't seem necessary to comment that the author of the above is
evidently ignorant of anything that happened in theology since 1549.  But I
will anyway.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe

"Do you know what this means?  It means this damn thing doesn't work at all!"