<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Jebadiah Moore wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">it would do us well to recognize communities as things to be studied, built, improved, and protected.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I doubt if you really mean that in general, I hope not anyway. Studied perhaps, but I doubt if you really want the Nazi community built and protected from criticism; and the best way it could be improved would be for it to self destruct. I feel the same way about Islam, Christianity too although perhaps not with the same intensity. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><br></body></html>