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To: Physicist
"Do you think that Jews do not make good citizens?"

I said that we can see the consequences of rejection. that applies to all. So don't try to make that statement into anti-semitism.

97 posted on 11/24/2001 7:09:19 AM PST by Don Myers
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To: Don Myers
I said that we can see the consequences of rejection. that applies to all. So don't try to make that statement into anti-semitism.

Don't get your dander up, I wasn't going down that road. Here's the point: there are lots of people who don't believe in an afterlife who make perfectly moral and upstanding citizens. I only used Jews as an example because it was topical to the original post. (I took it for granted that you and everyone else understand that Jews typically make very good citizens; I was doing a reductio ad absurdum on you.) Similarly, the prisons are full of people who do believe in an afterlife.

Here's my point: how is this possible if such beliefs have anything at all to do with people's behavior?

149 posted on 11/24/2001 10:17:59 AM PST by Physicist
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