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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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In article <77807@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>In article <1992May12.170823.23059@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, pindor@gpu (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
>>>Most religions think there is value in (human) life. Whether it can be
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>>For most religions this only applies to the life of the faithfull, the ones
>>which are really God-fearing.
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>Most religions?  I'm really not sure what metric you are using here, but
>in the one I consider standard English (discrete), I'd say your evaluation
>is utter rubbish.
>-- 
>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)

Hmm.  Let's vote.  I think the Rushdie matter takes care of one big
one.  (Yes, that's from the "radical" wing, but I don't see the others
coming to his defense -- which, according to some moral beliefs (that
is, mine) is worse, worse, worse.) The inquisition and the crusades
shows what another one will do from time to time.  I seems to recall
similar stuff in a lot of other Sagas.  

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