On 1 Nov 2003 at 1:17, The Fool wrote: > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 31 Oct 2003 at 23:11, William T Goodall wrote: > > > > > > > > On 31 Oct 2003, at 10:31 pm, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > > > > > On 31 Oct 2003 at 21:28, William T Goodall wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Hence it is a non sequitur. > > > > > > > > Why? Because I'm attacking something YOU believe in for a > > > > change? > > > > > > My belief that your English comprehension skills are rather poor? > > > > I'm dyslexic. If you don't like it, STFU. > > > > > > There's no non sequitur here except you on the defensive. > > > > > > Each of your posts in this thread is more evidence for my belief > > > :) > > > > Yes, and you're part of the very problem which created 9/11 and > > continues to cause problems in the world. Not me. I'd point out > > you've placed yourself in the same category as child rapists and > > suchlike a few days ago in one of tour posts, by comparing religion > > to them. The difference is religion is socially accepted, putting > > YOU on the other side of that boundry. > > So when andrew crystal starts building concentration camps and death > camps, for atheists, freethinkers, and rationalists, we should all > jump for joy because he is eliminating the evil non-religious > terrorists who tell people what the bible really says instead of what > the clergy say it says. Religion is socially accepted he says so off > with atheists heads, because their unacceptable evil will permeate > society and cause it's downfall. Lets burn the freethinkers on > stakes, for that has always been socially acceptable. Lets put the > rationalist on crosses as is the social norm. Lets burn down the evil > atheists cities, kill all their males, male children, non-virginal > young women, livestock, and pets, lets rape the female children and > carry them off to be concubines and slaves, just like our ancestors, > and people in the bible did. Because everything religious people do > and say and read and write is perfect and moral and good, and > everything those evil non-believers say and do read and write comes > from Satan himself, therfore those vile non-believers need to drawn > and quartered forthwith. Kill them all.
I repeat something I've posted before. The enemy is not a culture. Not a religion. Not a people. It is an idea. A meme, if you will. The meme is as follows: "That is it allright to mistreat other people, to belittle their views and to take away their capacity to decide for themselves, to kill them for simply being who they are - of a different faith, colour or people to your own." In other words, tollerance. Something the target of my rant utterly lacks. He is PART of the problem. He is no better, to me, than any extremeist, except that as far as I know he only talks about his views, not acts on them. He has a right to speak (although I think it has no value), but I will allways oppose the *acts* of the blindly intollerant. I am Masorti Jewish. The faith stresses several things - that Humans have free will, to live how they chose. That before one can understand anything, one must understand oneself and that tollerance and sharing between peoples is the way to social progress. And that intollerance, regardless of it's name, is wrong. Some members of this list automatically pidgeonhole other members, based entirely on a few things about them. Sterotyping is not only wrong, it is harmful. It is a blinker which stops you from seeing the world except through a narrow slit of what you consider acceptable. I work towards understanding and tollerance. I will allways do so, and the blindness which you chose, the intollerance and the hatred, is something I will allways oppose. If you don't want to hear my views, don't want me on Brin-L, just tell me. Andrew Crystall _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
