[Vision2020] Prediction/pin drop

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Thank you Paul
Roger
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From: Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:07:58 -0800
To: "g. crabtree" jampot at roadrunner.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Prediction/pin drop

> At the risk of being shown to be an idiot because I don't know the whole 
> story...
> 
> I hate this kind of thing.  Each person can, of course, do their 
> business with whomever they wish.  But to boycott groups merely because 
> of their religious beliefs, no matter how vile or inhumane or pasee' or 
> gauche or whatever it is you dislike about them is (imho) wrong.  
> Freedom of religion means that even the people you don't like get to 
> worship as they wish.  Hells, *especially* the people you don't like.
> 
> If you are going to draw a line, draw it at the action level, not at the 
> belief level.  Have any of these people done anything wrong other than 
> to believe as they wish?  Don't they have that right?  Are they 
> sacrificing babies or something?  Defiling kittens?  Suggesting that 
> their children go play in the road?  Listening to Britney Spears?
> 
> I, for one, don't care to know what the people I do business with 
> believe unless I know them well.
> 
> I know I'm going to get flack for this, but I truly believe that people 
> should have the right to believe as they wish.  And before all the 
> common reasons get trotted out again, do any of these people have 
> anything to do with Sitler, the founding of New St. Andrews, whatever 
> the fuss was with boarding houses, or the rehistorification of the 
> South?  And if a few of them do, is that grounds for trying to run them 
> out of business?  For trying to make them go broke?  You don't owe them 
> a living, but you do owe them a fair chance regardless of what you think 
> about whatever unseen forces they worship. 
> 
> My fervor on this topic probably has something to do with the fact that 
> I hold beliefs that most people don't agree with. 
> 
> Paul
> 
> g. crabtree wrote:
> > A point of clarification, if I may. No unsupported rumors are being 
> > spread here. Please contact Kenna Eaton at the Co-op (882-8537) for 
> > confirmation of the details concerning this sordid event or see:
> >  
> > http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2007/11/05/55872.aspx
> >  
> >  The point of bringing this matter to light is not to portray the 
> > Co-op or its management in a bad light but to reveal a certain mind 
> > set that is all too common amongst a certain element that centers 
> > itself there. A group that is quick to shriek when the word bigot is 
> > used when referring to themselves all the while quietly bearing the 
> > contention out in secret.
> >  
> > g
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