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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: 32 or 16 bits?
Message-ID: <185@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 01:58:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 01:58:52 1986
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Summary: "what is religion ..."

In article <1555@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@nbs-vms.arpa (COTTRELL, JAMES) writes:
>What is religion besides diehard dogmatism?

Fanaticism is diehard dogmatism.  Religion is open-minded seeking of
truths, particularly in relation to sentient entities' relationship
to the Universe and their [putative] Creator.  Dogma in this context
is a possibly- to probably-correct set of beliefs available from other
thinkers whom one respects, so that one does not have to start from
first principles.  Dogma in this context if shown to be wrong should
be discarded.  Please cf. G. K. Chesterton's _Orthodoxy_.

Sorry to bore most of you in the wrong newsgroup, but j.c. made the
comment in this one, and it greatly annoys me when this kind of closed-
minded comment is made in public.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}