At 4:49 PM -0500 4/11/01, Timmerman, Thomas wrote:
>Paul Brandon wrote:
>> And finally, the volume of social services delivered
>> publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately.
>
>I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered
>services were funded by passi
Tom Timmerman wrote,
> > And finally, the volume of social services delivered
>> publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately.
>
>I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered
>services were funded by passing a collection plate or
>staffed through volun
Paul Brandon wrote:
> And finally, the volume of social services delivered
> publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately.
I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered
services were funded by passing a collection plate or
staffed through volunteer hours
At 9:27 AM -0400 4/11/01, Dave Myers wrote:
>This is, indeed, a very stimulating critique of religion. Enough so that,
>some
>time after reading it, I penned a response, which, coincidentally, was just
>distributed electronically today by the University of Chicago's Public
>Religion
>project (se
> However, most respondents were selective about who should
> receive the money and did not think non-Judeo-Christian
> religious groups, such as Muslims and Buddhists, or groups
> outside the mainstream, such as Scientologists, should
> get funds.
This, of course, makes _exactly_ the point I
> From: Mike Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: morality and religion
> At 09:34 PM 04/09/2001 -0400, Stuart Vyse wrote:
>
> >Though it is an unpopular view, I, like Jim Clark, believe religion has
> >no special hold on morality.
>
> Indeed, for me mo
You know, I think we have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the
bath water. First, there is inherent in all religions a fundamental
problem: frail, fallible human beings are being "called" to carry out
angelic missions. Second, there is a vast difference between the
fundamental princ
Hello,
David Myers wrote:
But across individuals, religiosity (as indexed by such things as
participation in faith communities or self-rated importance of religion)
correlates with intentional altruism. While the correlations between faith
and
altruism/happiness/health seem pretty well establish
At 11:37 AM 04/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Though it is an unpopular view, I, like Jim Clark, believe religion has no
>special hold on morality. In case you missed it, here is an interesting
>article by New York Times science writer Natalie Angier that touches on
>this issue:
>
>http://www.nytimes.
At 09:34 PM 04/09/2001 -0400, Stuart Vyse wrote:
Though it is an unpopular view, I,
like Jim Clark, believe religion has no
special hold on morality.
Indeed, for me morality has always been the domain of philosophy, but
I'll leave the details to Theodore Schick, Jr., Professor of Philosophy
at M
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