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- From: pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
- Subject: Re: did I like miss your point?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.170605.10672@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 17:06:05 GMT
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- popec@freeside.com (PopeC) writes:
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- >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.
-
- This entire paragraph cancels out! By definition, every fanatic believes
- their cause to be worth being fanatical about, and those who oppose them
- to be wrongheaded and false. A fanatic does what he knows God would do if
- God knew the facts of the case. Being a fanatic IS a bad thing in and of
- itself.
-
- Paul Ciszek When we are planning for posterity, we
- ought to remember that virtue is not
- pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu hereditary. --Thomas Paine
-