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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Subject: Re: sex in the good ol' days
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.042915.20815@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.172842.16463@netcom.com> <1992Nov16.202344.25055@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov17.054314.4673@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:29:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.054314.4673@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
- > This first is an anecdote of an anxious father taking a young
- >son to a physician:
- >
- > which the father replied in the negative. The other question was,
- > 'Does your child pray?' The father replied that the child could
- > not pray, for he did not speak. To illustrate his meaning the
- > physician said, 'When you have prayers at home, or when in
- > Sunday-school or church, does your child kneel down, clasp his
- > hands, raise his face toward heaven or in any other way place
- > himself in an attitude of prayer?' The reply was in the negative.
-
- > question of grave doubt. [...] to pray is as natural to a child
- > as the desire for food.'
-
- Gosh, this guy thinks that the "absence of prayer" is itself proof
- of moral depravity. Sounds 19th-century to me!
-
- Rini's "Minister's Wife" somehow forgot to talk about God or prayer.
- >
- > Sacred things will first lose their hold upon you,
- > business and daily duties will begin to grow irksome, the
- > enchantment will continue to grow stronger, and before you are
- > aware you will be upon the swift current which rages among the
- > rocks of dissipation, dishonesty, deceit, and then sweeps on to
- > eternal destruction.
-
- Loss of heaven, and going to Hell. Real 19th-century moral texts are
- filled with this kind of thing.
-
- --
-
- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
-
- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
-
- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
-