--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > Apologies to the GoaNet community for inadvertently > replying to Mario on this forum. I had resolved > not to be drawn down to his level as is evident > from the tone of his messages so will not be > responding to him here. I will be happy to reply > to anyone else who wishes to continue this thread. > Mario clarifies: > I see that all the atheists that infest Goanet are on the warpath :-)) > I'm note sure what "tone" offended the otherwise thick-skinned Kevin, a determined religion-basher on Goanet, who was previously far more religious than most of us. In case Kevin missed it, I did not say that he had half a brain, only that even someone with half a brain would not be fooled by his attacks on religion and promotion of secular humanism. > Goanetters wondering about Kevin's reluctance to be "drawn down to my level" should know that Kevin had opined from his lofty "elevated level" perch that religion was the cause of all evil and that atheist "secular humanists" like himself were God's gift to humanity :-)) [I'm paraphrasing here, but it is the gist of what he wrote.] > I had replied asking why, if that were the case, the secular humanists were nowhere to be found addressing any of the recent REAL human problems the world had faced, from Rwanda and Burundi, to west-Africa, to the Sudan, to the middle-east, Afghanistan and Iraq. Nary a secular humanist to be found with any solution to any of these problems, nor the looming menace from Iran and N. Korea. > Has anyone ever heard of an atheist secular humanist that negotiated with Osama, Sadam, Mahmoud, Kim, Hamas or the late unlamented Al Zarkawi to arrive at some rational compromise to their grieviances? > All we hear from the secular humanists is strident opposition to anyone who opposes those murderous and/or dangerous totalitarian tyrants. > Has anyone ever heard of an atheist secular humanist adoption agency, a hunger program, a health care facility in rural Africa or anywhere else, a school somewhere for the poor? On ther hand, the secular humanists of Planned Parenthood run massive abortion clinics in the USA. > All we hear from the secular humanists are attacks on religion and religious people and snide suggestions that defenders of religious choice are at a lower level of humanity than the exalted secular humanists. > That led to the exchange shown below: > Kevin: "Humanists cannot reverse all the ills wrought upon this planet by the so-called religious in one generation." > Mario: "Forget about secular humanists "curing" ANY of mankind's ills. The point I made was that the secular humanists are not even in the arena, have never been in the arena, hiding behind self-serving labels and selective outrage that fools no one with even half a brain." > So, now you know Kevin's level and my level, and can make up your own minds. >
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