[extropy-chat] Re: Engineered Religion

[Mike Lorrey]

--- ben <benboc at lineone.net> wrote: 
> Hey, who you calling an atheist? 
> A humourless, bigoted one, at that.
> I refuse to rise to such trollery.
> 
> Interesting concept, actually, 'anti-catholic bigotry'.
> It /sounds/ like one of those logical conundrums, but maybe it isn't.
> Rather like being intolerant of intolerance.
> I'm going to have to think about it.

Try looking up the phrase "Calvinist", or "anabaptist".

> 
> The thing that really does puzzle me is WHY are people so happy to
> abdicate responsibility?

I think Hal's post is a pretty good estimate, although I wonder how
he'd define the psychology of a fascist/authoritarian, a greedy prude?

> I know that people are basically lazy (me especially!), but letting
> someone else decide what's right and
> wrong for you is just taking things too far. What's the point of even
> being alive if you're going to do that?

"You're not the boss of me now."

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://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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