[lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 13 21:14:49 PDT 2005


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.



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