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European Breakfast - Feb. 15 | 204 comments (204 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: European Breakfast - Feb. 15 (4.00 / 2)

How much do you know about religion? I'm not being snarky: some of the things you say seem to indicate that it's not something you're very expert on.

The distinction is between fundamentalist religion and other religion. You can be an extremist fundamentalist or not. The fundamentalist religions are branches of the underlying religions, not on the main trunk. You can be an extremist Catholic without being a Catholic fundamentalist.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 05:27:23 AM EST
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Re: European Breakfast - Feb. 15 (none / 0)

Not much, I'll freely admit to that. I do see that religious people seem to get offended pretty easily. In fact, only Republicans come close to their levels of expressed outrage at any slight.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 05:58:01 AM EST
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Re: European Breakfast - Feb. 15 (none / 0)

Again, hardly true of all religious people.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 05:58:58 AM EST
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All religious people are not offended, but most (vocally) offended people are religious.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 06:08:40 AM EST
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That's true: defensiveness is a core value of fundamentalism.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 06:16:34 AM EST
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Re: European Breakfast - Feb. 15 (4.00 / 3)

I don't know how to I say this diplomatically. You lack both knowledge and empathy. That's a poor place to fight a battle from.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 06:10:11 AM EST
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But what battle? My battle is in refusing to let any person motivated first of all by its religion to set the terms of any public debate.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 06:19:32 AM EST
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Re: European Breakfast - Feb. 15 (none / 1)

Forgive me too, but in my view, you are doing the opposite: you don't let any person argue in terms different than those you set (e.g. fight for free speech).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 06:25:16 AM EST
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Re: European Breakfast - Feb. 15 (none / 1)

The cheap shot here would be to suggest that you're denying them freedom of speech and expression by doing that, so I'm going to avoid that line of thought.

I think there are wider issues that are important. I think fundamentalism is terribly dangerous. It needs to go. However by it's nature it can't be destroyed by a frontal attack.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 06:42:17 AM EST
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