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To: WildHorseCrash
You're way too fixated on a minor point of nomenclature--even if you weren't simply wrong. For purposes of this discussion, all authoritarians are interchangeable, whether they favor (Mussolini-style) fascism, (Soviet-style) socialism, (Middle-east-style) despotism, (Medieval-style) Papal theocracy, or any other flavor. The most precise formulation of my original statement would therefore be:
Disbelievers in freedom contemplate natural selection and decide that they, or their preferred authority figure, can do it one better. Just as disbelievers in freedom who embrace (any particular) religion will generally favor aggression against heretics.

That reformulated statement expresses the original intent without using the word that confuses you (fascist), but it raises two new problems:

If you reach the zen level of comprehension, so that both of the above points are clear to you, then you'll realize that my original statement was so much a truism as to be almost trite. At which point, you'll grasp why I find you so amazingly obtuse for disputing it in the first place.

173 posted on 02/08/2006 10:10:14 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: WildHorseCrash
my statement was an utter tautology: "People who don't believe in freedom tend to oppose freedom." If you reach the zen level of comprehension, so that [this is] clear to you, then you'll realize that my original statement was so much a truism as to be almost trite.

It's worth pointing out that beneath the triteness lies a certain profundity. Namely, that Muslims are a pestilence not because they are muslim, but because they lack a fundamental belief in freedom. There's interplay, because their religion teaches against freedom, but with only that one change their religion would cease to be any part of the problem.

It also helps clarify why Dems so often find themselves on the side of the Muslim terrorists: they are united by a common rejection of freedom. The only point on which they differ is who gets to sit in the despot's throne.

174 posted on 02/08/2006 10:15:49 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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