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- From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
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- Subject: Re: did I like miss your point?
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 05:38:35 CST
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- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
-
- > Tammy Stark Blandino (lib1p@jane.uh.edu) wrote:
- > : In article <1992Dec31.183939.3539@radian.uucp>, markbr%radian@natinst.com (
- > rkbr) writes...
- > : >In article <1992Dec31.000558.8172@nwnexus.WA.COM> pyotr@halcyon.com (Peter
- > . Hampe) writes:
- > : >>drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- > : >>
- > : >>>iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- > :
- > : ..stuff deleted....
- > :
- > : >Huh? How many "fanatic atheists" have *you* *personally* ever met?
- > : >I sure don't know anyone that would qualify as one: certainly none
- > : >of them that I've know would think in terms of imposing their will
- > : >on the believers, even if they did think the believers were deluded
- > : >or stupid. I *sure* have known *plenty* of fanatic believers, who
- > : >would impose their will on me, if they could.
- > : >
- > :
- > : Does the name Madeleine Murray O'Hare ring any bells?
- > :
- > : Tammy
- >
- > How, exactly, is Dr. O'Hare a fanatic. Because she contested an
- > unconstitutional school prayer practice? Because she opposes the
- > unconstitutional entanglement of religion in Federal and State government?
- > Dr. O'Hare does not prosletize her atheism (yes she does speak before groups
- > who invite her, but if they invite her then they expect to hear her opinions)
- >
- > Read the woman's writings and listen to her speak before you start calling he
- > a fanatic.
- > --
- > Mike McAngus |You are a fluke of the Universe. You have n
- > mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org |right to be here, and whether you can hear i
- > The Truth is still the Truth |or not the Universe is laughing behind your
- > Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
-
-
- Madeline Murray O'hare is afanatic. I have been a member of American
- Atheists. I am an atheist. But being a fanatic is nOT a bad thing in
- and of itself. What is bad is being a fanatic about things that are
- wrongheaded or false. What we need are more fanatics about things worth
- being fanatiocal about, and less fanatics trying to jam nonsense down our
- throats, whether it is religous, speudoscintific, or political nonsense
- down our throats.
-
-
- Poe Charles, the SubGenius fanatic.
-
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