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To: Revolting cat!
LOL, you may be right--but no, I don't know. Do you object to fanaticism per se, or just to fanatics who don't share your cause?
446 posted on 03/16/2003 7:25:30 PM PST by Pistias
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To: Pistias
Do you object to fanaticism per se, or just to fanatics who don't share your cause?

I dunno if you're series, accusatory or what, but I'll give the benefit of a doubt and respond.

I've long noted (and argued) that there is little diffeence among fanatics of different stripes, the true believers as some socilogist called them (Eric Hoffer?) in the early sixties. Am I a fanatic myself? I dunno, I like to think that I couldn't care less. Does any fanatic think of himself as a fanatic?

I think we all come here to get away from the fanaticism of the secular humanism, which disguises itself as a most tolerant philosophy, but we all know otherwise. Go to any American university town and study the bumperstickers. A typical bumpersticker says something like "Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open". Right alongside it you'll see on the same cars bumperstickers with the most hateful, dogmatic Leftist slogans. The Left's diversity and tolerance are most intolerant. But I'm stating the obvious...

452 posted on 03/16/2003 7:43:32 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Someone left the cake out in the rain I dont think that I can take it coz it took so long to bake it)
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