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From: tischler@ihuxs.UUCP (Mark D. Tischler)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Ann Landers on Judaism
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 10:46:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 10:46:49 1984
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Harlan,

I hope you never hurt yourself on Shabbat and
can't call an ambulance because your too damn
stubborn to use the phone to save your own life.

I hope your mother or father never gets badly
injured, and you're not reachable because your
too brainwashed with religion to answer the telephone
on Shabbat.  I know I wouldn't want to find out
in the newspaper that my parent was hurt.
That's pretty unfeeling, but typical of folks
that are super-religious, to suggest that you
wouldn't want to be notified in case of an emergency
just because of some law that says
you shouldn't use the telephone on Shabbat.
By the way, has it ever occurred to you that
phones did not exist in biblical times, and that
therefore this law is not an original law.  But
yet you still observe it!

Technology definitely was not an issue in biblical
times.  That's why that argument was not used then.
Now, however, the rapid and accelerated growth of
technology affects all of us.  It is the super-religious
who want to hold back technology and, therefore, hold
back the advancement of mankind.  It's no "straw-man"
argument -- it's quite real.  Not seeing that is
living with you eyes closed.
-- 

				Mark Tischler
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