From: Charles Roghair (ctr@pacificpartssales.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 03:28:08 BST
Platt, All:
On Oct 11, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Platt Holden wrote:
> By "those people" I assume you are referring to orthodox
> (fundamentalist)
> religious sects. As you know, there are many believers in a spiritual
> being who don't belong in that category. It's a mistake to paint all
> such
> believers as crazy kooks as it is to paint all scientists as mad.
Chuck responds:
Well, of course, I was talking about orthodox (fundamentalists).
That's been the point of this most recent exchange. Orthodoxy? Has it
not?!?!
When you take my words, ("those people" in this case) out of context
and throw between quotations, they take on the sinister. Nice
technique. Are you a politician?
Is it your intention to distract the reader from your oxymoronic
post–i.e the "evolving orthodoxy"–by accusing me of painting "all such
believers as crazy kooks?"
If not, please point out where I did that! Seriously.
Platt:
"Your talking about a relatively few nuts among believers.
Chuck responds:
You think that all the world's Orthodox fundamentalists equates to a
"few nuts among believers?"
I think that's just silly, but if it were the case, isn't 9/11
testimony enough to the damage a "few nuts among believers" can inflict
on the world.
I feel the same
way as you about a few nuts among nonbelievers who would like to bring
about a Utopian world based on their idea of what's good for everybody,
and trying to make it happen at the point of a gun. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot
and Kim Chong-il come to mind."
Chuck responds:
Are you implying that I'm somehow in the camp of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot
and Kim Chong-il? On what grounds? And if not, how do they even enter
this thread? How are they relevant to the conversation?
While Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Kim Chong-il may have been evil on two
legs, at least one could see them coming. Orthodox fundamentalists and
you, Platt, are the wolves in sheep's clothing.
In the end, Institutionalized religion in general and Orthodox
fundamentalism especially wants to control the individual; the Lilas of
the world are its fodder. I fear the are far more Lilas than there are
Pirsigs.
Best regards:
Chuck
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