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Journal Engineer-Poet's Journal: How to get freaks 10

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You can be snarky and sarcastic, you can take people to task for several rounds of bruising in-your-face near-flame debate, and not get a single freak.

I know. I did all of that, and I didn't have any freaks until today.

Since yesterday morning I've gotten not just one, but two. What did I do yesterday? I dared to deny one of the foundation tenets of multiculturalism, and said that the religion followed by the head-chopping, vulva-mangling, wife-beating, honor-killing, Jew-hating, suicide-bombing, murder-praising masses concentrated mostly from N. Africa across the Middle East to SE Asia is backward and violent.

Apparently, there are some things it's forbidden to mention negatively in parts of American society - even if the people you're talking about admit to the same things (but call them virtues).

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  • Angling for an editorial position, are you? :-)
    • What's amazing is that any of the attempts I'd made since about 7 PM last night got through at all; I'd made at least half a dozen attempts to post it, and re-submitted when nothing progressed for 15 minutes or so (see TWC SUX [slashdot.org]).

      I clicked "reply" and went to dinner so I could be relatively certain of having a form when I got back. Yes, the "broadband" really is that bad here.

  • Maybe the people that foed you have IQs on or above the level of a lukewarm bowl of tapioca and, unlike you, are smart enough to know that non-corporeal things such as religion can't be violent in the sense that you implied?

    Just saying. Unless you think that "religion" somehow manifested itself in a physical form, swooped down, and cut someone's head off.

    If you're going to make volatile statements like that, at least make them accurate (unless you're just trolling, in which case I extend my hand in greeting

    • ...religion is just this ectoplasmic abstract stuff that floats high above all thought, emotion, moral justification, action or culture?

      Contrary views are arguable.

    • Unless you think that "religion" somehow manifested itself in a physical form, swooped down, and cut someone's head off.

      You mean, like a large, well-financed and doctrinally orthodox group of followers?

      Who can cite chapter and verse of their books - and a long tradition of following them the same way - to justify the correctness of what they're doing?

      Since religion doesn't truly exist except in the people who follow it, I am forced to ask you if there is any other way you could possibly have meant that?

  • Here [butterfliesandwheels.com]. Yes, religion and violence are connected. It's a complicated issue.

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