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• Greg. Tingey commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
  dirk @ 315 And so ("Others believe differently") do all the other murderous, lying religious blackmailers throughout history - what evidence do we have that you are any different - show please! For instance, so do the Taliban & Opus Dei & the N Korean communist party. Belief does not make either virtue or right. YOU MISSED THE POINT What about those who get or are subjected to your programme, whether they like it, or not? If it's a religion (& it is) it will behave like one - really nasty. You claim "Free Speech" Fair do's. One SLIGHT problem...
• dirk.bruere commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
  Well, lets just go the social darwinist route. You fight your corner and I'll fight mine and the best man is always defined by who wins. "If it's a religion (& it is) it will behave like one - really nasty." Yes - we must get rid of those evil Jains....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
  AGAIN - I'm getting tired of this ... You put words into my speech that I have never said. Have I mentioned "Social Darwinism" or anything related to it? NO Yes, I've met a couple of Jains - very clever... Now what about xtianity & islam & communism? Even Jainism subjects women, to some extent ........
• Neil in Chicago commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
  I'm startled that no one yet has referred to the great Ron Cobb's cartoon on the "real Jesus" (down the page)....
• RDSouth commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
  Now that you bring this thread up, and unrelated to the amusing cartoon but sort of inspired by the few posts above it. Religion is the belief that beliefs matter in and of themselves, thus that life is somehow a filtering of humanity on the basis of personality, implying that it is some world beyond this one that matters. The key statement of religion is the "just testing you," of an evil person trying to persuade you to evil, then resorting to an excuse when called on it. Theirs is the same kind of behavior and thinking that fills our...