--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> 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. > That peanutfellow sent armed men into Sonnenberg. But I'll forgive him. He didn't accomplish what he tried anyway; to kill Maharishi.
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