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To: A.J.Armitage

Interesting that you seem to have an issue with the way I rebutted someone else's argument, yet he didn't seem to take issue with it. Perhaps you should just fight your own battles?

My point is (one....more....time....) that there is a continuum between objecting to someone else's religious beliefs, through persecuting them for them, to the death penalty for apostacy. I know this isn't at the far extreme of that continuum; I never said it was. But it IS a step down that slippery slope. Particularly given the history of torture, murder, and inquisition in the Catholic Church; they have been there before. Combine that with today's Islamic-based censorship; is it so hard to understand the reluctance to give ANY religious based censorship a foot in the door?


294 posted on 04/19/2006 12:31:52 PM PDT by 2nsdammit (By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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To: 2nsdammit

Why would religious values be any different than political ones? If its a slippery slope "objecting to someone else's religious beliefs" is the same slope there for political beliefs?

What's the difference in boycotting DVC and Farenheit 9/11?


295 posted on 04/19/2006 12:41:49 PM PDT by D-fendr
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