[512] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Racism and what-not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Presley H Cannady)
Thu May 3 17:23:54 2001
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To: Brandy L Evans <liane@MIT.EDU>
cc: Michael E Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>,
Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU,
revprez@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 16:48:58 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 17:22:58 -0400
From: Presley H Cannady <revprez@MIT.EDU>
> I fail to see how identifying yourself as Catholic is any more
> superficial - or really any different - than identifying yourself as
> an Objectivist. Both define how you think about the world. Just
> because your parents raised you to be Catholic doesn't make it any
> less a part of you either - you had to learn about Objectivism from
> somewhere, right? What if you had learned about it from your parents?
It's less superficial. One is the cop out response of weekend
warrior conservatives. The other is the Body of Christ collected
in the House of God. How hard is that?
Rev Prez