Cobol - Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

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Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

Howard Brazee

2008-01-29, 6:56 pm

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:16:15 -0800 (PST),
"roger.pearse@googlemail.com" <roger.pearse@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
>They do if the bible is important in their society, I agree. But is
>this the case today?

Many countries have more variety in our -ism's than we had in the
past, but we still use them.

>
>I agree. But then I don't share any of this generation's values; I
>didn't vote for them, don't respect them, and know that they will pass
>away in a generation as all temporary values do. So undue respect for
>the Selfish Generation and its mores is not something that I am
>tempted to.

"Generation" may be too big of a label. Within a generation values
vary tremendously. They also vary between generations though - even
values that people say are defined by thousands of years old
scriptures.

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