Letters to the Editor
Esprit_de_Voltaire
Published Letters: 76 Editor's Choice: 1
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The Realm of the Unknown
[Read the article: Are you going to hell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The basis of the problem here is the clergy, which insist on allegorical literature being read as empirical truth. The Pharisee is an archetype of the religious professional in all ages. It's all about Power and I'm not speaking of the Heavenly variety. The clergy's position is that they are always right and therefore are entitled to control society.
However, this is only one side of the coin. It's easy to mock religious speculation, but no one knows the answer to questions which by their nature lie beyond empirical analysis. Atheists are just as full of bullshit and negative speculation as the devout are of positive speculation.
ANYONE who purports they know, can prove or disprove the existence or non-existence of dimensions which exceed the normal four of our perception are fools, Charlatans or both. This is a completely speculative realm.
You can disprove the Olympian gods, but you cannot disprove a transcendent being as the author of Time and Space itself. Only a fool would claim to be able to disprove some thing which he had no means to verify, just as only a Charlatan would claim to know that which is completely beyond his ability to discern.
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Person, you err
[Read the article: Are you going to hell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Person, you err in several points.
1. "Ah great. Good old agnosticism, you can sit back and freely criticise both sides of an argument, without actually having to come up with one yourself."
My criticism was of clergy, not of religion. I believe that religion holds merit, whether a deity exists or not. So obviously my criticism was not of both sides.
2. "Because you freely admit you don't know and then don't bother to do anything about your ignorance."
The fact that it is impossible to know with certainty does not automatically correspond with not having any beliefs. My personal religious beliefs are not the subject of my post, so your description of me as ignorant is simply ad hominem arrogance on your part.
3. "At least adopt a hypothesis one way or the other as a starting point if you are going to engage in an argument over religion."
You make an assumption that a statement of fact is intended as a philosophical argument which quite frankly is silly.
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Walter Shapiro - Big "D" Pimp
[Read the article: A non-paranoid's guide to superdelegates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There was a time I had respect for your writing, but it is now far too obvious that so are simply a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party establishment. The Superdelegates were created to keep Big "D" Democratic Party insiders fro losing control to the voters, little "d" democracy, plain and simple.
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Faux paux
[Read the article: A non-paranoid's guide to superdelegates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My apologies for the obvious spelling errors above. I was extremely irritated by Shapiro's obnoxious defense of the indefensible.
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Anti-Religious Evangelicals
[Read the article: Are you going to hell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Atheism is not a religion. However, since the majority of atheists do not stop at simple disbelief, it is a belief system. Its basis is the negation of another system of belief. As such it should be more properly termed Anti-Religion. It proselytizes and has "Evangelists" which include Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins who exhibit all the fervor of Elmer Gantry.
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Are you going to hell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My apologies for offending you since my statement of fact is obviously over your head. I would never take advantage of someone who brings a knife to a gun fight.
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Je vous salue, M. Buckley
[Read the article: William F. Buckley Jr. is dead at 82 ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although I seldom agreed with William F. Buckley, I certainly enjoyed and respected his commentary. He possessed an erudite style which is almost completely absent on either side of our political spectrum. I, for one, will miss him.
Au revoir, vieil ami,
Francois -
William F. Buckley's Greatness
[Read the article: The "father of modern conservatism," dead at 82]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, I couldn't agree with you more. William F. Buckley was an adversary deserving your respect. The extremism of the Neocons is simply not grounded in sound reasoning whereas Mr. Buckley's positions were always well thought out.
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Hillary Clinton - Fifth Columnist
[Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton has succeeded where Karl Rove failed. If there was ever any doubt that she is a stealth Republican, this poll says it loud and clear. She has fractured the Democratic Party beyond repair.
She voted with the Republicans, has the same warmongering foreign policy agenda as McCain and deceived the gullible into believing she was a progressive. Now she's destroyed the tree at its roots.
Hillary Clinton - Republican in a Democrat suit
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Karl Rove's Argument
[Read the article: Let 'em duke it out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Funny, Karl Rove made the same argument on Wednesday. No wonder people are saying HRC stands for Hillary Rove Clinton.
Come clean now, did you get this from Karl or did Karl get this from you?
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Such a loss
[Read the article: "Penn should have been let go"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]$10,000,000 in donations down the toilet for Mark Penn.
That Hillary sure has good judgement.
Yeah that's the kind of person we should elect as the most powerful person in the world.
She knows just what to do, ready from day one.
Yep, she should be answering the phone for an on spot decision when the fate of the nation and the world is at stake.
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It's Started
[Read the article: The Iran hawks' latest surge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This story is related to the NYC bombing which is an obvious Black Op to discredit the anti-war movement. Read the AP story about the letters received. This scare tactic has CIA fingerprints all over it.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080307/D8V8BBSG0.html
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Our Lady Macbeth
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm curious as to at just which point she'll compare Obama to Hitler.
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Perilous
[Read the article: A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I want to know more about the "run for the cars" moment she cited. Did it start to rain?
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They were "educated" to think like this
[Read the article: Lessons not learned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good analysis, Glenn. One other thing I would like to add as a cause.
This is what happens when the focus of education is boosterism of the godliness of the nation rather than History, Science and the Arts. No matter how "liberal" most Americans believe themselves, at their core is the false belief that the US excretes ice cream, pees lemonade and could never, ever have actions which were not rubber stamped "Approved" by God Himself. If you doubt me, just suggest to someone that blowback from our foreign policy was likely connected to 9/11.