> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 10:21 PM 10/30/03 -0600, The Fool wrote: > > > From: Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > I wrote: > > > >>The only group you are likely to get consistent answers from would be > > > >>the anti-religious groups, as you can probably see from some of the > > > >>others who have already answered your email. > > > > > > William T. Goodall replied: > > > >Doesn't this indicate where the compelling evidence leads? > > > > > > That the only group that follows in lockstep and allows no dissent from > > > their orthodoxy is the anti-religious group? > > > >Interesting. You are attempting to frame freethinkers and rationalists > >as authoritarian thought police. But the fact remains that freethinkers > >and rationalists have thrown off shackles of religious thought control, > >not the other way around. > > Though it is interesting how many of the people who describe themselves as > "free thinkers" seem to think alike on so many issues, and to reject the > positions of anyone who disagrees with them on those issues (abortion, > frex) . . .
Because their minds are clear of ignorant religious dogma? Why should anyone consider a parasitic lump of undifferentiated cells any differently from a cancer? Stems cells are not humans, and I am unwilling to give stem cells human rights.
I was going to ask what you thought a self-described free thinker would say to someone who opposes abortion, but you seem to have answered that question already, and to have made my point that the free thinkers are just as unaccepting and unforgiving of those in their ranks who do not agree with them as the members of any religious organization.
-- Ronn! :)
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