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To: medved
The big defense of libel is "fair comment and criticism." Once the posts you pulled the quotes from and the posts to which they are replying are taken in context, there is the distinct possibility that they will fall under the fair comment and criticism category. You can prove anything you want by taking quotes out of context, which is called "quote mining" and is mentioned in one of the quotes you mined above.

Now, you have a right to hold whatever crazy ideas you adhere to -- the Constitution says so. However, your spamming each and every thread with those ideas, while it is your "right" shows a horrible lack of courtesy toward others. It is the equivalent of those crazy guys who stand on the street corner calling everyone sinners -- no one actually listens to them, and they are simply annoying everyone around them. Now we have courteously offered you a possible solution -- your very own thread -- but you seem intent on ignoring the feelings of others in the exercise of your right to babble on.

159 posted on 03/13/2002 12:55:29 PM PST by Junior
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To: Junior
Evolution---the boat with no top--bottom...

"We see here our Noah building His wondrous ark for the salvation of His household. We see its beginning, middle, and end. We see its different parts, external and internal; each plank as it is laid, each nail as it is driven in. Its form is perfect; its structure in all details is complete; its strength and stability are altogether divine. Yet with what labour and amid what mockings is this ark constructed! Amid what strong crying and tears, what blood and agony, is it completed! Thus, however, we are assured of its... perfection---and security. Through the deep waters of this evil world it floats in peace. No storm can overset it, no billow break it, nor so much as loosen one of its planks. They who have fled to it as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, are everlastingly safe."

162 posted on 03/13/2002 1:08:20 PM PST by f.Christian
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