Comment Intolerance on /. (Score 1) 671
Wow. I guess this qualifies as a "holy war", huh?
This may be off-topic, but no more so than all the anti-Christian / pro-Christian rhetoric above. There are several things worth noting on this conversation. My favorite fallacies:
(1) Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are both good things, unless either one of them happens to be of a religious or spiritual nature, in which case it is backwards, primitive, and medieval. Thoughts or expressions in this vein should be repressed.
(2) All Christians think exactly alike. Specifically, they all believe that unless you follow their specific flavor of Christianity, you are Hell-bound.
I was appalled to see this group of normally reasonable, intelligent people resort to this silly bickering and bigotry. I was appalled to see people I assumed to be both thinking and educated arguing from emotion, ignorance, and confusion. What happened to open-mindedness to other points of view? Oh yeah, I forgot... everything from Microsoft sucks, whether I've actually used it or not. ;)
Why can't we all just get along?
This may be off-topic, but no more so than all the anti-Christian / pro-Christian rhetoric above. There are several things worth noting on this conversation. My favorite fallacies:
(1) Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are both good things, unless either one of them happens to be of a religious or spiritual nature, in which case it is backwards, primitive, and medieval. Thoughts or expressions in this vein should be repressed.
(2) All Christians think exactly alike. Specifically, they all believe that unless you follow their specific flavor of Christianity, you are Hell-bound.
I was appalled to see this group of normally reasonable, intelligent people resort to this silly bickering and bigotry. I was appalled to see people I assumed to be both thinking and educated arguing from emotion, ignorance, and confusion. What happened to open-mindedness to other points of view? Oh yeah, I forgot... everything from Microsoft sucks, whether I've actually used it or not.
Why can't we all just get along?
