> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 01:50 AM 10/31/03 -0600, The Fool wrote: > > > 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.
Bullshit. I ask again: Why should anyone consider a parasitic lump of undifferentiated cells any differently from a cancer?
Q.E.D.
-- Ronn! :)
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
-- Anonymous
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