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In reply to the discussion: Dear John Hagee: Kiss my blasphemous, atheistic ass, and YOU GET OUT! [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)So...he's ONE nitwit. Why are you offering more power to him than his words merit?
You don't broad-brush about everyone because ONE nitwit makes an ass of himself. You don't broad-brush even if hundreds of nitwits make asses of themselves.
It's like quoting those Tea Party assholes and coming to the faulty conclusion that all human beings--bar none-- are horrible creatures not worthy of drawing another breath, simply because a subset of 'em are assholes.
You're going to meet jerks in this world. Refute them on the merits of their stupid arguments, don't broad-brush. Otherwise, the implication is that your arguments are weak, even when they are not.
Like I have said, and I will say again, you'd never hear that shit from MLK had he lived, or many other "people of faith"--ever. It wouldn't enter their heads to be that hateful. Or stupid.