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Sorry for the delay, I;m still going through e-mail but some one else may
have already responded to this request;<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Perhaps you can do us the favor
of citing some<br>
examples where religious listmembers were<br>
attacked on account of their religiosity.<br>
</blockquote>Okay, how's this little exchange, addressed to me on April
4, 2004, the plain text is me, I can't recall who the response was
to:<br><br>
<pre>>Sorry, but I'm going to be brutally honest about the fact that
religion
</i></b>>sucks. I'm tired of seeing it everywhere. I'm tired of
dealing with the
</i>>ignorance it promotes. I'm sick of seeing bad parenting based on
</i>>religious nonsense. I'm tired of wasting my time fighting the
religious
</i>>right and other moralistic busybodies.
</i>So am I, so are a lot of people. For a lot of people religion</b> is
its own
worst argument.
>I grew up in a fundamentalist family, so I trust my gut instincts
when
</i>>it comes to religion</b>.
</i>>I'm tired of being nice to religious people, including leftist
religious
</i>>folks. You want to believe in stupid nonsense, I'm going to
criticize
</i>>you on it.
</i>I don't blame you for trusting your gut instincts. That being said,
care to
tell me want 'stupid nonsense' I believe. Seeing as you have no fucking
clue what religion</b>, if any, I consider myself to be an adherent of
I'm
genuinely curious.
>And calling me intolerant is like calling a black person racist.
I've
</i>>had a lifetime of being on the receiving end of religious
intolerance.
</i>Right, there are no black bigots. Being on the receiving end of
intolerance
doesn't ennoble all violence against it.
>Burn down the churches,
</i>And that's only after a couple of minutes with Google. I'm willing to
bet others have similar exchanges that they could provide. Chris is not
imagining things here.
PC
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