On 05/01/2007, at 9:13 PM, William T Goodall wrote: >> >> He "certainly" isn't. Strident, forceful and rude, vicious in parody >> and a baiter who goes far too far in getting his rise out of people. > > You calling me a master baiter Charlie?
*cough* Something like that... I find your schtick a bit tiresome, but not as tiresome as seeing the same couple of people on the same couple of lists rise to the same bait every time. >> It's both. When organisations protect those among their number (as >> with the recent and ongoing Catholic Church abuse revelations), > > Or the emerging Rabbi abuse scandal in New York. Or that one. > >> the >> organisation and mind-set behind it is just as fair game as the >> individual perpetrators. Individuals are wholly responsible for their >> own actions, but any organisation or movement that protects the >> guilty from justice and responsibility is just as guilty. >> > > That's religion! Organised religion is a subset of the groups that are susceptible to subversion by the immoral, and especially in the case of Christianity where obedience to a particular interpretation is encouraged to the detriment of healthy inquiry, and there is an organisation as a whole to be protected, these things are more easily swept under the carpet. I don't see that there's any reason to tar all religion with the same brush, but I do think the days of assuming that religious groups are more moral are over and need to be put aside - all groups need to be examined on their own merits. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
