Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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Here Kitty, Kitty ,Kitty..
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What else do you think I'm wrong about.
I'm going to keep asking until you either answer or go away.
The lurkers are watching you squirm away from a simple, yet awkward, question.
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@ farbie
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd be willing to wager serious money that if the current resident bombs Iraq, the Democrats will do nothing, except cheerlead..
The Titanic is stern high and going down fast.
A lot of us are going to get pulled down by the suction and many of the rest are going to go from hypothermia.. Assuming we can find life jackets.
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@ brantleydean
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder how you would interpret Romney's statement that "freedom requires religion" in a manner other than he is advocating forcing religion on others?
As an atheist, a few years ago I put a "Darwin Fish" on my car just to show others who share my philosophy that they are not alone. After having my car "keyed" four times in three months I took the symbol off. Voila', no more keying since then.
The Christian fish is on practically every second vehicle where I live and it has never even occurred to me to vandalize someone's car for having that symbol.
Who is the better "Christian", me or those who vandalized my vehicle because I had the temerity to show my philosophy openly?
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@ brantleydean
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...Can I go with: Neither?
This is exactly my point: you qualify "Christian" by a very limited encounter.
Four times in three months is a "limited encounter"?
When it has never happened before or since?
Are Christians properly defined as "those who key cars"? No. Just like we would not dare presume that all ____ (fill in the blank with whatever race, gender, ethnicity, "otherness" you'd like) are this way or that way. Its naive. Its arrogant. And in political discourse it is a helpful way of policing other voices.
Perhaps not, but those who were keying my car were "Christians", or considered themselves as such.
The subtext in all of this is not the issue of religious expression, but OTHER expression; i.e. voices you dont like to hear, for whatever reason, legitimate or not (and, listen, if people have keyed your car...i can understand your not wanting to hear them). Unfortunately a democratic republic presumes to represent all its people...wingnut Christians included.
But wingnut Christians absolutely despise "other voices". Which is the whole point of my little tale.
What the great majority of theists fail to realize about atheists in America is that we almost all started out as theists. We understand you far, far better than you understand us.
The tales of "deconversion" that many atheists tell are harrowing, losing one's faith is a very soul shocking trial for may and a surprising number of the deconverted lose their friends and family and indeed all of their social relationships.
Due to the fact that I had a very good religious education I'm far more conversant with the Bible and theology in general than the great majority of Christians. Deconverting is a rational process and one examines one's beliefs in the cold hard light of reason. If you don't know what it is you believe in the first place how can one deconvert?
Those Christians who know me often tell me what a good Christian I am, because I try to live by the Golden Rule and treat others the way I would like to be treated. Those few who learn my secret are more often than not shocked to find out that I'm an atheist.
Also, it'd be an interesting question to ask: Why did people feel the need to put Christian fishes on their cars in the first place? Perhaps for the same reasons you put a Darwin emblem on yours???
Christians have churches in which to meet and support each other, blacks and other minorities instantly recognize each other, even gays have "gaydar" and little signs by which they recognize one another (ob ref: Larry Craig). Atheists have none of that, like liberals in 2002 we feel all alone with no one else in the world to whom we can relate.
How would you feel if the money in your pocket declared "There is no God"? If every sporting event began with a public denial of the existence of God? If every politician felt the need to declare at the end of every speech that "God is a delusion"?
I think that you would find it very off putting, alienating and contemptuous of your personal philosophy.
Walk a mile in my shoes and I suspect that your attitude toward atheists would change markedly.
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@ L.W.M
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](Oh no! Here come the Pauliacs. It's a police state!).
What would you consider to be the most single most definitive characteristic of a "police state"?
In my mind it is the percentage of the population locked in cages.
"The Land of the Free" leads the world in that category.
We're #1
We're #1
We're #1
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@ Anonymust
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that you are addressing one another directly, Aycharaych, Talesofunrest, & Dounia, maybe you could take it to an IM session? Kitt's right; we're not that interested,
There are plenty of posts here that I don't find particularly interesting. There are also a lot of side conversations.. Why is it that you feel the need to single out myself and two others for your thread Nazi proclivities?
I will post what I wish to post and have conversations with those I wish to have conversations with, you are welcome to skip them if you find them objectionable.
I come and go here thanks to my work schedule but I have actually been around for a considerable time under other handles. For instance, I can remember when bebop-o was clownsense..
And Kitty told me that I was wrong about a lot of things on a previous thread and, despite much prompting from me, utterly refuses to elaborate on his assertion.
Which leads me to believe that Kitty was lying when he told me that there were many topic on which he thought I was wrong.