On 31 Oct 2003, at 20:57, Reggie Bautista wrote:
What she said, more or less. The original post in this thread was about
religious beliefs that some people have and how those affect the political
decisions those people make. Instead of responding to those questions
in a meaningful way, the anti-religious folks on the list immediately jumped
in with the same old argument they've made many times, which basically
boils down to "religion bad."
Why would you want to discuss the taxonomy of the evils due to religion without discussing the evil of religion?
It was so predictable and such a knee-jerk
reaction that it looked like they were spouting a party-line that had been
brainwashed into them. In other words, ironically, it looked like an orthodoxy.
So I called it what it looked like.
Or it could just be the truth...
Can we now get back to answering the interesting questions that Robert
Chassell originally asked when he started this thread? Thanks in advance.
Religion is evil, so people influenced by religion make evil political decisions? :)
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
- Bertrand Russell
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