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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 11:29:19 EST
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In article <486@mhuxm.UUCP> abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (J. Abeles) writes:
> GOOD AND EVIL are NOT "RELATIVE" CONCEPTS!

I suppose you think your capitalization makes it so?  Otherwise you might
have supplied an argument.

> And going back some 3500 years, Jewish culture is the only survivor
> in the world.  I know that other peoples have been around that long,
> but NOT their culture, unchanged.  Yes, it must be viewed with awe
> and possibly as a miracle that Jews, with their Torah, survived
> h-ll, fire, and high water for thousands of years and nobody, but nobody,
> can hold a candle to that fact!

I can just imagine all those biblical shepherds dressed like Hassidem
and talking Yiddish, wearing their armored yamulkas into holy war.

There is nothing miraculous about the fact that there must be an oldest
book/culture/person/etc. in the world.  If it happens to be Jewish,
whoopie.  Some would debate that dubious honor.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh