what's inviolable about the human being? Ian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ricardo Duchesne > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:9153] Re: Christianity > > > > > > Sam wrote: > > >Kant's ethics make extraordinary demands on > > >people. Kant's "kingdom of ends" is a utopia. > > > > Which is the reason why Kant had to believe in the immortality of soul. > > Another remainder of Christianity in Kant. > > > > Yoshie > > > > It is beyond me that, after the experiences of the past, > some in the left continue to hold on to this naive idea that they > can root out all past religious history as "retrogressive". > Religion will > always be with us, because religion is not about some supernatural > entity, but about what we hold to be sacred, of which the > inviolabilty of the human being is such. And Christianity, in its own > imaginary way, took a major step in this direction in its > claim that *each* human being has an immortal soul, equal in the light > of eternity. >
