[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:

> Banning an important historic document from schools on (atheist)
> religious ground is very disturbing, as is banning scientific
> evidence
> on evolution from schools on (christian) religious ground. Rewriting
> history, and rewriting science, are always first steps toward a
> totalitarian Orwellian system. Let's hope both types of talibanism
> are only temporary reactions to the overheated political climate.
> Mike, I am puzzled by your more and more frequent defense of
> religious nuts.
> My analysis: you hate what you call "liberals" so much that you
> prefer to side with the christian talibans on the basis of a
> feeling that "the enemies of my enemy are my friends" (faulty
> logic to say the least). You are proud that the christian talibans
> have beaten the
> liberals in the US, and now regard them as precious allies.

As Europeans have been so frequently demonstrating in recent months and
years: you are quite wrong.

My posts have been an attempt to illuminate to the atheists here that
their faith is as much a religion as the Christianity they so
vehemently hate, the Judaism of those they are so willing to love or
hate depending on whether they are in the US or in Israel, and the
Islam they are so willing to coddle.

Atheists are JUST as capable of persecution and tyranny in perpetrating
and evangelizing their faith as anybody else

> My friend: just wake up. These are the same people who used to
> actually BURN people for exercising their right to free thought and
> speech. These are the same people who burned Giordano Bruno, put
> Galileo in jail, and held most of Europe in a totalitarian terror
> regime for centuries. Just read history.

I have, and I am putting up warning signs to you to say: you are just
as capable of these acts as anybody, see, it is already beginning.

> You call yourself a libertarian, but are ready to defend the
> witch-hunters that history has proven to be the worst enemies if
> personal freedom. You call yourself an extropian, but side with those
> who want to ban all research on advanced medical technologies that
> can make us better than today's humans. You proudly call yourself an
> American, but please try to realize that your new taliban friends are
> more and more against all that Jefferson and Paine stood for.

Please try to realize that your hyperbole and histrionics of collective
guilt against people due to their faith is the same road that led to
Sobibor and the other death camps, and it is YOU Europeans who have the
real guilt and experience in persecuting people because of their faith.
I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson by now.

As a libertarian I stand behind anybody who peacefully practices their
faith (including atheism). As an extropian, I oppose any luddite,
including the majority of them, who are atheists/gaiaists of the left
who hate extropians at least as much as they hate christians.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. 
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail