This disturbs me. Note: original Library of Congress link does not function due to session timeouts; you may search for Public Law 102-14 for the 102nd Congress at the Library of Congress website for the government-sponsored text.
In order to get a context of what the joint resolution above is talking about, please read this.
Unfortunately, I could not find an English translation of the Babylonian Talmud anywhere on an academic site; however, the above synopsis of the seven laws is representative of the other five synopses I read.
The bill does nothing more than recognize someone who upheld a set of pseudo-universally held beliefs. What disturbs me about it is the wording of the following phrase:
"...the year in which we turn to education and charity to return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws...'
Now, colour me wrong, but it reinforces the idea that Americans are scions of morality for the rest of humanity, which is something I wholly and firmly disagree with. While the law itself may be inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, it leaves me with a pervasive feeling of despair and anger: when did this country develop a sense of paternal oversight for the rest of the world? I certainly don't prescribe to it.
In order to get a context of what the joint resolution above is talking about, please read this.
Unfortunately, I could not find an English translation of the Babylonian Talmud anywhere on an academic site; however, the above synopsis of the seven laws is representative of the other five synopses I read.
The bill does nothing more than recognize someone who upheld a set of pseudo-universally held beliefs. What disturbs me about it is the wording of the following phrase:
"...the year in which we turn to education and charity to return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws...'
Now, colour me wrong, but it reinforces the idea that Americans are scions of morality for the rest of humanity, which is something I wholly and firmly disagree with. While the law itself may be inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, it leaves me with a pervasive feeling of despair and anger: when did this country develop a sense of paternal oversight for the rest of the world? I certainly don't prescribe to it.