Re: virus: Re: Discipline of Translation

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Thu, 3 Jul 97 23:28:36 -0400


>I think this is just orthodix [sic] atheist grousing. :-) A familiar (if
>simplistic) tactic, to take three things that are valued by religion and
>invert them so they become evil.

Hmmm. Familiar and simplistic tactics.... Where have I heard that before?

Are these things valued by religions, or they just simplistic tactics to
hold the wolves at bay?

Of course, a simple jest was all my point, but what the hell- yes, that
is what I meant....

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws,
to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue,
even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these
and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men."
- Francis Bacon

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