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
To: tpaine
Arthur Koestler on fanaticism:
When have you had an original thought?
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.
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.
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