[lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

Cardinal Law slapped my face once. I also had my face slapped by a 
sister and had another sister hit me in the back of the head with a ruler. 
Does that stuff count?
FWIW I was hostile to religion long before Law touched me.  : )

John Thornton


> sounds like you had a rootless, traumatic childhood from which you're 
> trying to recover by turning to spirituality.
> 
> IOW, i hardly think one should chalk up legitimate disagreements to 
> childhood trauma. yoshie not only doesn't seem hostile to religion, she 
> hardly seems to have been the victim of childhood religious traumas. Nor 
> does anyone else here, for that matter.
> 
> 
> 
> Kelley
> 
> At 11:08 PM 6/13/2005, joanna wrote:
> 
> >Well,thanks for the vote of confidence. Dwayne just reminded me that one 
> >reason why there might be such hostility to religion on the list is due to 
> >traumatic childhood experiences with religion. I never went through that 
> >thanks to issuing from a mixed Xtian/Jewish marriage and to socialist 
> >Romania. So I have no trauma to recover from.