08 Oct '12 08:55>
Originally posted by boononWould you like to discuss the "mindless dribble" with me? I am quite prepared to rationally discuss the facts I give (have you checked them?) and the reasoning behind it. That includes fundamentalism. I will refrain from listing the marks of fundamentalism (of any religion - the ones that fight endlessly with much violence and hatred) and its well known nastiness and dismissal towards other human being's belief systems.
[b] Fundamentalism in all its socially and psychologically destructive forms needs to be strongly and rationally confronted. That is not the equivalent of anger and hatred at all. To seek to prevent the further spreading of such can be seen as a positive thing.
Who decides what things are considered fundamentalist, and if they are socially and psycholo ...[text shortened]... o 'stop the further spreading' of what I consider your freedom of thought and speech.[/b]
My posts on this line will stop soon. I am getting tired of trying to reason with the haters of reason. But perhaps some have heard enough to warn them away from the mental and moral perils of fundamentalism. I hope so.