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From ai815@freenet.carleton.caMon Aug 21 11:11:12 1995
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 05:32:36 -0500
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From: Greg Erwin <ai815@freenet.carleton.ca>
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To: ry94ad@badger.ac.brocku.ca, apabel@prairienet.org, perfecto@pcnet.com,
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Eric.M.Kidd@Dartmouth.Edu, ftp@locust.cic.net, rblair@shl.com,
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hbcsc056@huey.csun.edu, tmwe@maths.nottingham.ac.uk, kmc9@cornell.edu,
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hammond@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu, timbo@frungy.cbr.fidonet.org,
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mc.wilson@auckland.ac.nz, PITT_I@summer.chem.su.oz.au,
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p01664@psilink.com
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Subject: March 1995 Nullifidian
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*The*E-Zine*of*Atheistic*Secular*Humanism*and*Freethought**
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###### Volume II, Number 3 ***A Collector's Item!***#####
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################### ISSN 1201-0111 #######################
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nullifidian, n. & a. (Person) having no religious faith or
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belief. [f. med. L _nullifidius_ f. L _nullus_ none +
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_fides_ faith; see -IAN] Concise Oxford Dictionary
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The purpose of this magazine is to provide a source of
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articles dealing with many aspects of humanism.
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We are ATHEISTIC as we do not believe in the actual
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existence of any supernatural beings or any transcendental
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reality.
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We are SECULAR because the evidence of history and the daily
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horrors in the news show the pernicious and destructive
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consequences of allowing religions to be involved with
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politics and nationalism.
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We are HUMANISTS and we focus on what is good for humanity,
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in the real world. We will not be put off with offers of
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pie in the sky, bye and bye.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Full and equal rights whatever your religion
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2. Review of A BUDDHIST CRITIQUE OF THE CHRISTIAN
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CONCEPT OF GOD by Gunapala Dharmasiri; Golden Leaves,
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1988, by Taner Edis <edis@iastate.edu>
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And Other Essays_ by Lemuel K. Washburn
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Exchange, review
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Annie Laurie Gaylor
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|| BEGINNING OF ARTICLE ||
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>From a Quebec government pamphlet entitled "Full and equal
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rights whatever your religion":
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Under the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, every
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person is entitled to be treated equally, without
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discrimination or harassment.
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The Charter was adopted in 1975. Created under this
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fundamental law, the Commission des droits de la personne
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must:
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o promote an understanding of the Charter;
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o see that situations jeopardizing human rights and
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freedoms are corrected.
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The Charter forbids discrimination...
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"Every person has a right to full and equal recognition and
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exercise of his human rights and freedoms, without
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distinction, exclusion or preference based on race, colour,
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sex pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age except
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as provided by law, religion, political convictions,
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language, ethnic or national origin, social condition, a
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handicap or the use af any means to palliate a handicap.
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Discrimination exists where such a distinction, exclusion or
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preference has the effect of nullifying or impairing such
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right." [Section 10]
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..and harassment
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"No one may harass a person on the basis of any ground
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mentioned in section 10." [Section 10.1]
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DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RELIGION...
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This means..
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that you are prevented from exercising a freedom or a right
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recognized in the Charter because of your religion or
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO RELIGION [emphasis added] or because you
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do not practice a religion.
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Just note that this was adopted, non-controversially, in
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1975, and has been Quebec law since. No fundies marching in
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the street, no bishops denouncing it, no real controversy at
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all. I don't think they even bother to picket the abortion
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clinics here.
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I particularly liked the phrasing of the explanatory
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paragraph, which includes religion, absence of religion, or
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having a religion and refusing to practice it. Feel free to
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recommend it to your local legislature as a law which has
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been in existence for 20 years, without bringing on the
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collapse of civilization into moral chaos.
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|| END OF ARTICLE ||
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"If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?"
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Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other
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Essays_
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|| BEGINNING OF ARTICLE ||
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First published in the Washington Area Secular Humanists
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newsletter.
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--Taner--
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A BUDDHIST CRITIQUE OF THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF GOD
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Gunapala Dharmasiri; Golden Leaves, 1988
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Early Buddhism incorporated a rejection of Hindu concepts of
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theism, with arguments similar in many cases to the Western
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philosophical atheism responding to Christianity. This book
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is a modern exposition of the Buddhist critique of classical
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Theism, relying extensively on the Western philosophical
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vocabulary, indeed almost the full range of atheistical
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arguments, and correlating this with the Pali canon. As a
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thorough attack on the God concept, it is comparable to
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excellent reference works such as Michael Martin's "Atheism:
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a Philosophical Justification," 1990, or J.L. Mackie's "The
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Miracle of Theism," 1982.
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However, the interest of such a book for humanists is beyond
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its uncompromising atheist nature. Saying: "The Buddha did
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not accept the existence of God. He also rejected the idea
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of a soul though he advocated the possibility of salvation,"
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Dharmasiri defends an explicitly religious atheism. Indeed,
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his few passing references to humanism are decidedly
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negative. Among the factual claims made that most humanists
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would be skeptical of are the reality of reincarnation--
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which sets the stage for salvation as extinction; and
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psychic powers---which provide a means to apprehend the
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reality of continual rebirth. But these differences are not
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all. Even with the remarkable similarity in the arguments
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rejecting the God concept, early Buddhism ends up with a
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significant difference in attitude compared to typical
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humanist approaches, which has ethical implications as well.
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Humanism claims to move beyond bare atheism in providing a
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outlook of life; though its success in this is dubious at
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best. A denial of theistic claims and attitudes constrains
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a philosophy of life but a little, and continually
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criticizing theism is but reactive. The early Buddhist
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views' different form of atheism is valuable in reminding
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humanists of this. It also helps us see, universalistic
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ambitions aside, how historically contingent our
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ethical-political philosophies are. Buddhism is revealed as
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bearing the stamp of its birth in a Hindu religious context;
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Western humanisms are similarly unintelligible without a
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history of Christianity.
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In short, I highly recommend this book for what it
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indirectly prompts humanists to think of, besides its
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determined and usually accurate criticism of the very
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fundamentals of Christianity.
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|| END OF ARTICLE ||
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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled
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with the entrails of the last priest."
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[Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fˆte des rois"]
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A series of quotes from Lemuel K. Washburn's _Is the Bible
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Worth Reading?_ originally published 1911, by Truth Seeker,
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The book is everywhere interspersed with these delightful
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quotes. This article consists solely of those quotes. By
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the way, the answer to the book's question is "no".
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The cross everywhere is a dagger in the heart of
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liberty.
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A miracle is not an explanation of what we cannot
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comprehend.
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The statue of liberty that will endure on this
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continent is not the one made of granite or bronze, but the
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one made of love of freedom.
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Take away every achievement of the world and leave man
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freedom, and the earth would again bloom with every glory of
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attainment; but take away liberty and everything useful and
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beautiful would vanish.
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A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not
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get root.
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The measure of liberty which man enjoys determines the
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civilization of the age in which he lives.
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The person who can make a loaf of bread is more to the
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world than the person who could perform a miracle.
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The feet of progress have always been shod by doubt.
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A true man will not join anything that in any way
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abridges his freedom or robs him of his rights.
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The man who accepts the faith of Calvin is miserable in
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proportion to the extent he carries it out.
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Whatever tends to prolong the existence of ignorance or
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to prevent the recognition of knowledge is dangerous to the
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well-being of the human race.
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A higher respect for man has been one of the chief
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promoters of civilization. Advancement has always been
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toward right and truth when the ranks were imbued with a
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proper regard for human hearts and human happiness.
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FREETHOUGHT COMMANDS
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Say nothing about others that you would not have others
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say about you.
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Be severe toward yourself; be kind to your fellow-man.
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Do not give advice that you cannot follow.
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Do not thank God for what man does.
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Serve neither God nor Mammon, but humanity alone.
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Do not try to be perfect as a "Father in heaven," but
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try to be better than you yourself are.
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Seek first to improve the earth, and heaven will be of
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less consequence,
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Let us not forget that men speak according to the
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measure of their knowledge and light, and that a superior
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enlightenment is a higher authority.
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History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave
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and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it
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becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility
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it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the
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foe of enlightenment.
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There is greater argument in one fact than in all the
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creeds.
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It is easier to believe that a man is honest who says
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the Bible is the word of God than to believe that he is
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bright.
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The Bible upon which Christianity is founded does not
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say what Christianity is, what a Christian is, nor what we
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must do in order to be a Christian.
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There is no justifiable Christianity in this age.
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A dogma is the hand of the dead on the throat of the
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living.
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The progress of the world depends upon freedom of
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thought and freedom of utterance.
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If you can forgive the man who wronged you, the
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neighbor who slandered you and help the poor about you, you
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need not be particular about making any professions of
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righteousness
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If man had no knowledge except what he has got out of
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the Bible he would not know enough to make a shoe.
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The great work of man has ever been to rescue the
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present from the past; to turn the mind from what it has
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left behind to the opportunities and duties which are around
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it. For this has genius toiled down the ages, sung its song
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of love, carved its dream of beauty and whispered to the
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world's dull ear its bright message of hope.
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A true man is not troubled by anything but his own
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acts.
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The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the
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heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted
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in his nature.
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A great many people are afraid of knowledge, but we
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have seen hundreds of people that we thought would be
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improved if they knew more, but we have never seen one that
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we thought would be better if he knew less.
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You cannot stuff your minds with the lives of saints
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and grow good on the stuffing.
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Some persons are remembered solely for their virtues
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and others solely for their faults. This is why we have a
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Jesus and a Judas.
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When men are hungry roast mutton is better than the
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lamb that taketh away wrath.
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**** ****
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If a man can look in the mirror of his own soul without
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shame, he can look the whole world in the face without a
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blush.
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Civilization has come about by going to school more
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than to church.
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Nature is the volume from which all of our knowledge
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has been translated.
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Every fact is backed up by the whole universe.
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Christianity is a black spot on the page of
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civilization.
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The church is a bank that is continually receiving
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deposits but never pays a dividend.
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When a minister says that God will help you, ask him to
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put up the collateral.
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The church spends thousands of dollars to save a dTHE NEW RENAISSANCE--(#27, Fall 1994), 9 Heath Rd., Arlington MA,
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02174. 181 pp., $7.00. A beautifully-packaged collection of
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fiction, non-fiction, illumagery and poetry from the middle
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|
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outlook of our culture, but which includes a breakthrough article
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by David Impastato on the nature and failings of "dominant-mode
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||
poetry. Also a worth-the-price-of-admission set of reproductions
|
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||
of the neo-Boschian unmiddle-outlook paintings by Samuel Bak (b.
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1933).--bg
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NO LONGER A FANzine--(#5, Summer 1994), 142 Frankford Ave.,
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Blackwood NJ, 08012. 54 pp., $2.00. Joseph A. Gervasi, editor.
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|
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When someone takes on the world without flinching, and gets
|
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|
||
interviews with William T. Vollman (author of THE RAINBOW
|
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|
||
DIARIES), Randall Phillip (editor of FUCK), and even talked to
|
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|
||
Dennis Cooper in the last issue, you know you're dealing with
|
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|
||
somebody who isn't afraid to take on the crazies. This is what
|
||
|
||
fanzines dream of being--independent, xeroxed, DIY--but almost
|
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|
||
never achieve because there isn't the intelligence and gall in
|
||
|
||
most people to pull this thing off right. This is the stuff, the
|
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|
||
place, the thing you got to see, like talking to somebody you
|
||
|
||
really want to know.--o
|
||
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||
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O!! ZONE--(#12), 1266 Fountain View Dr., Houston TX, 77057.
|
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||
48 pp., #4.00. A highlight of this issue is a grittily anti-
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||
|
||
sentimental but moving elegy for Bukowski by Robert Peters.
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||
Representing the opposite end of the overt-passion scale is C.L.
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||
Champion's "poema cocci," which consists of four scattered
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|
||
rectangles. In the middle of one is the word "cloud"; in another
|
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|
||
is a "c"; and "clod" is in a third. The fourth is empty. Earth,
|
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|
||
sea and sky... and mystery.--bg
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O!! ZONE--(#13), 1266 Fountain View Dr., Houston TX, 77057.
|
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|
||
48 pp., $5.00. Harry Burrus, editor-Publisher. Thirteen, what a
|
||
|
||
pleasant number, but not bad luck--good luck for Harry Burrus.
|
||
|
||
Here's one that is moving it along. Writers from about the round
|
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|
||
orb on which we live (some of us at any rate). Represented
|
||
|
||
writers from: Papatoetoe, West Yorks, Berlin, Aukland and
|
||
|
||
Baltimore! Well, we are all poets and here is this maga going
|
||
|
||
all about it. It communicates: A phone call of poetry with a
|
||
|
||
free package of gum. Fine cut-up collages too. A Fine mix of
|
||
|
||
poetry forms and no arrogance. Obviously no one in this maga has
|
||
|
||
a polo pony. Some tributes to poetry of Anna Leonessa and some
|
||
|
||
nude shots. Some visual poems and some confessions. Names in
|
||
|
||
the news: Crag Hill, Bob Grumman, Ergee, Trish, Hergo and fine
|
||
|
||
work from these: Zauta, Bertola, Akmakjian, Weslowski. Sing
|
||
|
||
these names and get more poetry. Poetry-o. Poetry-ski. Us the
|
||
|
||
word fine a lot.--mb
|
||
|
||
|
||
ONE HUNDRED SUNS--(#2, Spring 1994), PO Box 30186, Long Beach CA,
|
||
|
||
90853. 68 pp., $5.00. This enticing zine has included so many
|
||
|
||
well-known micropress poets I can't mention them all. Suffice it
|
||
|
||
to say that this publication is an exploration of the spirit of
|
||
|
||
poetry in the '90s, represented in almost 40 poems, plus b&w
|
||
|
||
collages, two-tone photographs, reviews and even three comix
|
||
|
||
sketches. Amid the clarity of well-worked verse and reliable
|
||
|
||
voices is a sense of mission; to present tasteful but not tame
|
||
|
||
poetry; to create something enjoyable and lasting. For example,
|
||
|
||
Todd Kalineki attempts to paint, "& made a few random attempts at
|
||
|
||
the abstract./ Fuck this, i thought--/ nature's more powerful..."
|
||
|
||
Todd Moore interacts with his father: "he grabbed/ my hand &/
|
||
|
||
made me/ touch the/ pulse going/ up & down/ on his wrist..."
|
||
|
||
vivid images abound. Elsewhere, Cheryl Townsend contemplates
|
||
|
||
age, "...someone let the air out/ of my tires..." Poetry by
|
||
|
||
poets with focus and confidence.--rrle
|
||
|
||
|
||
OPEN 24 HOURS--(# 10, 1994), PO Box 50376, Washington DC, 20091.
|
||
|
||
$3.00. Buck Downs, editor. Twenty-four contributors include
|
||
|
||
Alice Notely, Bruce Andrews, Robert Fitterman, A.L. Nielsen, John
|
||
|
||
Elsberg, Mark Wallace, Keith Higginbotham and Spenser Selby,
|
||
|
||
among others--this should give an idea of the great variety of
|
||
|
||
styles presented. What holds them all together is s the external floppy 3.5 or 5.25?
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