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To: VA Advogado
"Because they are fundamentalist fanatics. Weird blue nosed people." - tpaine


What is it about God that scares you? VA
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I'm not scared, you fundamentalists are:
--- See my thread on Fundamentalism.

Fundies are frightened people, & not necessarily 'religious'. They are fanatics.

Arthur Koestler on fanaticism:

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.
We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
330 posted on 09/09/2002 4:46:06 PM PDT by tpaine
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To: tpaine
Arthur Koestler on fanaticism:

When have you had an original thought?

334 posted on 09/09/2002 5:42:55 PM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: tpaine
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church

Arthur Koestler, Tpaine, two men with a disgusting religous bigotry.

336 posted on 09/09/2002 5:46:54 PM PDT by VA Advogado
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To: tpaine; Roscoe; Zon; Dane; Kevin Curry; Cultural Jihad; Texasforever
Arthur Koestler on fanaticism:

From 1932 to 1938 Koestler was a member of the German Communist Party

I love it went TP shows his real roots.

339 posted on 09/09/2002 5:53:49 PM PDT by VA Advogado
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