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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:39:11 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- > From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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- > beliefs and not insult them. However, if I do not believe something
- > to be sacred, then I cannot profane it, nor can I be sacriligious
- > unless I am operating within the religious community. I feel certain
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- Explain to me then, why so many people find the use of Christ and
- Jesus Christ so effective as swear words, rather than Hitler, or Stalin,
- or Pontius Pilate. Funny I don't hear anyone taking the name of Moses
- or Mohammed, or Allah or Buddha in vain.
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