[ExI] Rights (Was: Geert Wilders acquitted)

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 00:34:51 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:58 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> This worries me.  We seem to have set up a situation in which respect is
> gained by willingness to kill for it. Does anyone here ever worry about the
> consequences of blaspheming Presbyterians?  Why?   How about Amish?
> Methodists?  Because we know damn well they won't hurt us, which immediately
> makes them the Rodney Dangerfield of religions.  They get no respect.  We
> find ourselves a system analogous to a prison: respect results from a
> willingness to murder.

given your usual metasyntactic replacement of religions that must not
be mentioned with those that can, this post is quite humorous to me.




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