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In reply to the discussion: So last month HBO ran a documentary about a religion. They portrayed the central figure of that [View all]CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)I don't blame you. It can't be fun working so strenuously to defend your own untenable BS.
I can see you're going to ignore my points, well, forever and it's sad that you have to resort to strawmen, rather than argue honestly. But I would like to ask, since you say this isn't about Muslims - no, no, no, no, no OF COURSE not - and since you're such a passionate defender of the First Amendment, you must have started lots of threads championing the First Amendment rights of lots of odious people, like, you know, the Fred Phelps crowd, anti-abortion wingnuts, the KKK, all those sorts of people -- you've started threads reminding us all of their First Amendment rights too, presumably? I mean, surely it's not just Pamela Gellar you go to such lengths to defend? Could you point me to any of those threads? Because I couldn't find them.
And finally LOL at this:
That said, regarding your question about examples of Fundamentalists who can't live in a pluralistic, secular world: does flying passenger airplanes into buildings count?
Yeah, those drug-taking, strip club patronizing 911 hijackers -- those were some hardcore religious fundamentalists all right. If only they could have learned to live in a pluralistic, secular world! It's so simple, of course!
Fortunately, there are still thoughtful people in the world who take the trouble to try to understand, to see the larger picture and multiple viewpoints. They reject facile, black and white agenda-driven rhetoric. You'll never be one of those people.