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To: Right Wing Professor

"Or, alternatively, you could get a grip."

Or you could be mature enough to know this sort of things just inflames and starts fights.

It is the equivalent of yelling fire in a theater. Why intentionally provoke a group of people? I think Islam is nonsense, but I would NEVER deface one of their religious symbols to make a point - it wouldn't change one Muslims mind and it could start an unnecessary altercation. Besides, the Darwin fish sends a message that Darwin is your deity. I thought that wasn't so with the "pure" scientist? Professor, you know that such things are bad form, just as a Christian getting in your face and trying to provoke is.


125 posted on 01/08/2006 7:12:43 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Sola Veritas
Why intentionally provoke a group of people? I think Islam is nonsense, but I would NEVER deface one of their religious symbols to make a point - it wouldn't change one Muslims mind and it could start an unnecessary altercation. Besides, the Darwin fish sends a message that Darwin is your deity. I thought that wasn't so with the "pure" scientist? Professor, you know that such things are bad form, just as a Christian getting in your face and trying to provoke is.

Because debate often employs satire and even ridicule. As a former Christian, I don't find the Darwin fish offensive, and I didn't even when I was a Catholic. It's rather gentle humor, and not at all bad form. Describing kids in public school as the descendants of rats and cockroaches, now, that's bad form.

Nor do I believe religious symbols deserve any special protection that other symbols do not deserve.

If I'd seen you object to the frequent posting here of the old lithograph with Darwin on a monkey body, I'd grant that you're at least consistently humorless.

133 posted on 01/09/2006 7:08:52 AM PST by Right Wing Professor (Round and round the argument goes....)
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