--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: <snip> > > > I remain unconvinced that Carter is a good counter-example. > > > He's a pacifist, but he's still intolerant. > > > > Well, he's not a pacifist by any stretch of the > > imagination. > > > > And what exactly do you believe he's intolerant > > *of*? > > TM, alcohol in the White House, anything that offends his > religious sensibilities that he has direct control of.
Like most of us, I would imagine. He's also intolerant of a lot of things he has no direct control of, such as racial, religious, and gender discrimination, discrimination against gays and lesbians, human rights violations of all kinds, blurring the line between church and state, not taking care of the poor, etc., etc. Frankly, I don't mind a bit of intolerance on his part about things I'm tolerant of, as long as he's intolerant about the kinds of things I listed above. I'd be really interested to hear why he was so intolerant of TM. My *guess* is that he was convinced MMY was pushing Hinduism in disguise, and that what he didn't like was the perceived deception. If MMY had openly promoted Hinduism, I doubt he'd have objected. Certainly there were plenty of others promoting it that didn't draw his wrath. As I said, he does have his blind spots, and this was one of the worse ones. But he got such high marks in so many other areas, I'm willing to forgive him for it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
