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Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:33:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes:

> When are you going to admit where this visceral disdain for "your"
> perception of God comes from?

I'm not Larry, but I have disdain for self-delusion in general.  Don't you?
Obviously we disagree about whether Christianity is delusion, but I'm not
getting why you would possibly assert that someone's disdain for a particular
bit of delusional belief is visceral or must have some outside origin.

> Was it mom? Dad? Gramma?

Mom, Dad and half of my Grammas are/were also atheists.  How could I be
reacting to an overbearing childhood religious trauma when there was none?

> That this is nothing original to your intellect but merely a
> base emotional aversion to some religiously overbearing figure out of your
> past - something I have intimated several times and which you always side
> step.

Maybe he sidesteps it because it's ludicrous of you to claim such and he
doesn't want to get siderailed into yet another meaningless threadlette.

Chris



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