At 9:12 AM -0400 8/25/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>
> > There are many
> > well-meaning folks who claim that a "right to decent housing and
> > adequate medical care" is a God-given right. Never let the Jesus
>> freaks define what rights are.)
>
>I don't remember that in the Bible. I only remember "thou shalt not kill",
>"thou shalt not worship other gods", and so on. [Taking care of the poor is
>an *obligation* for the Christian churches, not a right.]
A very good reason to keep the Jesus freaks out of the business of
defining rights. Left up to them, "worshipping other gods" would
indeed be a crime. (It almost was, in the U.S.)
>
>[I'm getting tired of fighting American idiocy... even Romanian schools are
>better than this. We at least knew that anything "they" said was to be
>reversed. They said "capitalism is bad" - that was a sure sign that it's
>good. They said "Christianity is evil" - well, I fell for that until I was
>23 or something...]
You still haven't learned to think critically, then.
You admit that your earlier thinking was reactive:
"If they said capitalism was bad, then it must be good."
"If they said Christianity was a crock, then it must instead be the true path."
Too bad you were not exposed to more critical thinking earlier in
your life. If you discovered Christianity at age 23, as a reaction
against Communist doctrine, it's probably too late for you in general.
From an information theory sort of point of view, saying that you
believe the opposite of whatever the authorities tell you is not any
more interesting than believing what they tell you.
Instead of calling you a Xtian, perhaps I should call you an XORtian.
--Tim May
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