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Re: One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Jul 2002 03:45:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
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> > > Can you not see the contradiction you're broadcasting? You are constantly
> > > sputtering about "athiests" and "leftists" as if either group can be painted
> > > with a single brush, but then you get your undies in a bunch when people
> > > applie your own standards to the club to which you belong! Disingenuous
> > > doesn't begin to cover it!
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> > Back up there, schoolboy.
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> Easy there, zealot.
:-) Mine was a wordplay on "Schuler". The dirty dealer meant no harm...
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> > Atheists *can* be categorized insofar as that they all have one thing in
> > common that binds them-- no belief in God. But you would be hard pressed to
> > find a single common belief among *all* Christians, short of their belief in
> > God (in which case you are hardly talking about Christians in particular).
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> How about an alleged belief in Christ?
Belief in *what exactly* about Christ? This is an extremely contentious issue
among Christians.
> Your willingness to lump athiests into one bunch is exactly illustrative
> of your bigotry
Dave!! That is what *RM* did to Christianity, Jews, and Muslims! But all I
hear is that *I'm* the "shockingly bigotted" one, and it's coming from *him*!
> I would venture to say that in the history of the world the blood on
> athiests' collective hands is a drop in the ocean compared to the blood on
> theists' hands. Truly religion elevates the character of man to its noblest
> stature!
I doubt it, but I'm not sure I want to go there, or would see a point to it.
But I think that you are wrong WRT your facetious religion statement. Many of
mankind's greatest literary (or whichever category you choose) achievements
were done in the name of religion.
-John
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| (...) Easy there, zealot. (...) How about an alleged belief in Christ? That seems like a binding factor that unites Andrea Yates, Torquemada, Emperor Constantine, David Koresh, Mother Theresa, and Padre Pio, regardless of the different (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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