On 3/21/2009 8:25 PM, Ross Cassell wrote to Chinacat:

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->  C> But believers won't let non-believers live in peace. Including you. Your
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-> Are you accusing me of being a believer?
-> 
-> If you are, then you possess a PhD in Wrong.

I've looked at your blogs. Believer. Period. And liar when you try to deny it.
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-> There was a time when I possessed the anti-religion fervor exhibited by your
-> kind, I learned to chill out. I further learned that for me to have a
right to
-> my beliefs, I must acknowledge the rights of others, too bad your kind
wont see
-> that.

You have the right to your beliefs but you don't have the right to force
them on everybody else.
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-> Since when are people of belief *REQUIRED* to answer *YOUR* questions about
-> their beliefs, show me the law that requires such?

The law that says you don't have the right to force those beliefs on me.
And if you want me to follow your ways, then you have the obligation to
answer my questions so that I can satisfy myself that this is the right
path for me. If you can't or won't answer them then the only conclusion I
can come to is that you must be deluded.

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->  C> If religion and it's followers can't survive if questioned, then there's
->  C> something wrong with it. And something seriously wrong with the follower
->  C> who believes that someone who doesn't believe what they do threatens
their
->  C> 'salvation'.
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-> It is not nor will it ever be about whether or not they answer
questions, for
-> they are not required to submit themselves for interrogation by your kind.

Why not? Especially if they insist that I have to follow their path?
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-> What threatens *YOUR KIND* is that people do, a vast majority of the worlds
-> populace, choose to have a belief system that differs from your own, it burn
-> you up and that my dear friend is pure megalomania, or evil at its purest. I
-> use the term evil because it is the opposite of good, and to which, nothing
-> good comes from your advocation's.

No, it doesn't burn me up or bother me in the least...until you have that
belief system that says the laws of the land have to fall in line with
their beliefs. This country was founded to be religiously neutral so that
everybody could make their own choices. Religiously neutral.

You should be shitting your pants that the dominionists might get their
way. Because if they do, the Lutherans, Methodists, Quakers, Presbyterians,
Moderate Baptists and other religions who would rather keep their beliefs
to those who WANT to follow them, will end up in the same category as
Muslims, Jews, Wiccans, Buddhists, and atheists.

One more question, Ross. When was the last time an atheist came to your
door to share the 'good news' and refused to leave when you said 'no
thanks'? Or left a flyer offering free food if you needed it but only if
you sat through a lecture first? Or put up a billboard stating "An Educated
Person Knows the Origin of Species". Ok, so that's 3 questions but you
can't answer ANY of them in the affirmative, can you?

... Easter's been cancelled. They found the body.
 
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