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To: daniel1212

When I was in high school, I screwed up a fundamental astronomy fact. I then went into a science fair and won, after convincing every judge that they were wrong and I was right. When I realized what I had done, I was devastated, though it was a simple intellectual issue. And I swore that day that I would never argue with someone on religion, as I had frequently done in high school, because I care far too deeply about the people I meet to damage them, as I believed I could potentially do. That’s my side of it.

On the other, I am often amazed at the arrogance of people who have only one right and that is theirs. I am horrified by Muslims who take that to unbelievable extremes, and I am not that impressed with Christians who do something similar intellectually, if not physically. I am not anti-Christian. I’m socially Catholic, if intellectually atheist, and spend hours defending Christians to my friend, who has had bad experiences with greedy ministers going after her dying, well-to-do parent. But I defend the rights of Christians to have their own beliefs. I don’t defend their beliefs.


76 posted on 09/24/2017 4:28:50 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie
On the other, I am often amazed at the arrogance of people who have only one right and that is theirs. I am horrified by Muslims who take that to unbelievable extremes, and I am not that impressed with Christians who do something similar intellectually, if not physically.

And why should I be impressed with one whose "right" belief censors others who censors others whose belief conflicts with theirs. You may not realize it, but you are also censoriously asserting a right belief, in this case about how those who believe Truth is exclusive by nature should respond to those who contradict their belief.

83 posted on 09/24/2017 9:44:02 AM PDT by daniel1212 (rust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + folllow Him)
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