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5 Sep 2024 17:15:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Straight Dope  
From: Darren New
Date: 30 Jul 2009 11:56:02
Message: <4a71c292@news.povray.org>
Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>> while the key feature of religion is, "There is one right and true 
>>> way, so failing to follow it is automatically wrong." 
>>
>> Nope. That's the key feature of monotheism.
>>
> Ok, minor point, but not always true. Hindu isn't mono-theistic, yet it 
> still manages to generate nuts that think the solution to catching up 
> with the US is "Vedic Science" and "Alchemy", and that the western 
> versions of science are all "wrong", because they don't embrace total BS.

I think "wrong" in that very first sentence was referring to morality, not 
truth. The two are orthogonal.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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