--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selma, > > I congratulate you on these beautiful posts of > yours. > > I have witnessed the transformation of many of my > older friends and relatives who had harbored bigoted > notions during my childhood. My experience has been > that most rational people are very receptive to > reason, even without the benefit of an advanced > education. > > My grandparents in their old-age realized that most > of the prejudices of their childhood and youth were > in fact horrible. All of them, but especially my > maternal grandmother, appeared to have conducted a > thorough re-examination of their beliefs, and > perhaps, a humbling self-evaluation. > Mario observes: > On the other hand, we see Goanetters from this generation with far more education than their ancestors, regaling us with gross misrepresentations on the factual sequence of events in the middle-east, declaring all truth to be "provisional", using bogus statistical methods to declare all religious persons to have "fake moralities" and seriously postulating the comical opinion that Hitler was a Catholic when his actions repudiated every single tenet of the Catholic faith. > Kudos for those ancestors who "conducted a thorough re-examination of their beliefs, and perhaps, a humbling self-evaluation." Now perhaps it is up to their descendants to do the same. >
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