On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 06:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aristo responds:
Wow! That's succintly put. Usually I avoid getting into these debates because they drag on endlessly and the noise levels are high, i.e. there is not much useful content. But Aristo has argued his case so well that I must applaud him. > (yes > Mario, you better scratch my name off the page in your little diary > titled "Godless Commies", and while your at it, make separate pages > for "Godless" and "Commies"!) One point here, why do we accept 'godless' in its pejorative sense as a word of abuse? If 'godless' means being an atheist, what's wrong with that? Why do atheists come in for so much abuse on Goanet? As Santosh Helekar and others have repeatedly pointed out, belief in a God or religion often has only peripheral overlap with having a good code and practice of ethics and conduct. And if you believe in a God, fine, it's your opinion, but why do people get so excited and upset about people who don't? So, yeah, put me down as a 'godless commie' on the same page, no problems :-) -- Question everything -- Karl Marx _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
