--- Bosco - Goanet Volunteer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario, if you are looking for gratuitous > generalities and snide remarks, please refer to > your own recent post, specifically the last > sentence: > > http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-October/049147.html > > You are NOT any less guilty, while accusing others > of the same things you indulge in ? If you would > like others to change their style of writing and > demeanor, I'd suggest you start with yourself first. > Mario explains his post: > Here is the entire text of what Bosco is referring to as "snide" and "a generality", obviously because he disagreed with what I had written: > "Goanetters should read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and "Fear No Evil - The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph over a Police State." by Natan Sharansky to see whether citizens of the old Soviet Union really reconciled religion with communism, or not. BTW, both these authors spent more than three weeks in Russia in 1969." > This was in response to a post by Cornel in which he specifically cited a three week stay in Russia in the 60's the only purpose of which was to add credibility to an insinuation that he found religion to co-exist in harmony with communism in the old Soviet Union. > To counter this insinuation which I found offensive to say the least based on what I have learned about religion and communism from various Russian emigres who grew up in the old Soviet Union, I pointed out the published experience of noted Russians mentioned above, who had spent much of their lifetimes, not just three months, battling the hostility of communism towards religion. > I guess if you think that the old Soviet Union was a bastion of religious freedom, you would object to my comments as "snide" and "general". In fact my post was very specific, pointed, factual and only derogatory to those who would disagree, though it may have been tinged with some annoyance at the technique and conclusions I was objecting to. >
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