From: "Mark K. Bilbo" 

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:40:44 +0000, Smiler wrote:

>
> "stumper"  wrote in message
> news:N_CdnUBv74khK5jbnZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d{at}ptd.net...
>> jem wrote:
>>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:32:32 -0400, stumper

>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> jem wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:31:02 -0400, stumper

>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Jaime G wrote:
>>>>>>> In article
,
>>>>>>>  stumper  wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Still, I would trust Christianity over communism.
>>>>>>> That's an apple and an orange. One is a fake
religion, one is a
>>>>>>> failed economic system.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's your opinion.
>>>>> I think it's a pretty good one.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I see them both as a belief system
>>>>>> which tries to solve all problems that matter.
>>>>>> And that characteristic is what makes them so dangerous.
>>>>> Christianity is faith, communism is government.
>>>>> I like that apple and orange thing too.
>>>>> Calculators try to solve problems also....
>>>>>
>>>>>> Christianity tries to dictate how we do science.
>>>>>> Communism tries to dictate how we do religion.
>>>>> Christianity did dictate everything in Europe, a la dark ages.
>>>>> I don't think mankind is capable of pulling off a good communist
>>>>> government that makes a successful egalitarian cultured-fun-free
>>>>> society. Maybe in software, but not in reality. I'm
not interested in
>>>>> juxtaposing christianity and communism, they both suck.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you trying to dictate how we think?
>>>>> You're getting to be trite and hostile, there's no
need to be a manic
>>>>> troll.
>>>>
>>>> Is that the way you reason things out?
>>>
>>> say something I can respond to, the question bullet doesn't help me to
>>> understand what the fuck you are referring to.
>>>
>>> try again.
>>
>> Should we try to control what people think
>
> That's what you appear to be doing!

Of course it is. He did, on arrival, announce he was going to be the
benevolent moderating presence of the newsgroup...

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Mark K. Bilbo                a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken

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