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To: jim35
Or are there any public venues in which you would be willing to tolerate religious speech?

Personally, I am OK with it pretty much anywhere so long as I don't have to pay for it, and so long as I am free to walk away if I don't care to participate or listen. I can't walk away from it on an airplane, so my only choice is to listen, whether I want to or not, or tell the talker to shut up. I am quite willing to tell the talker to shut up (I have done it to plenty of loudmouth cell phone users on Amtrak trains back in the days before Amtrak instituted its "quiet cars"), but I don't appreciate being put in a situation where I have to get nasty or confrontational just because somebody else chooses to be rude.

105 posted on 02/10/2004 10:47:09 AM PST by blau993 (Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
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To: blau993
Personally, I am OK with it pretty much anywhere so long as I don't have to pay for it, and so long as I am free to walk away if I don't care to participate or listen. I can't walk away from it on an airplane, so my only choice is to listen, whether I want to or not,

And that is it exactly. Being part of a captive audience sucks.

114 posted on 02/10/2004 10:54:18 AM PST by Bella_Bru
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To: blau993
"...but I don't appreciate being put in a situation where I have to get nasty or confrontational just because somebody else chooses to be rude..."

This alone says a lot about you. Someone comments that you'd be crazy not to be a Christian, so you'd get "nasty or confrontational?" Sir, in my opinion, you'd be crazy not to be a Christian. I could advise you further, but I don't want to FORCE you to get nasty or confrontational.
115 posted on 02/10/2004 10:55:45 AM PST by jim35 (A third party vote is a vote for the DemocRATs.)
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