Subj : Imbolc 4001
To   : RACHEL L. AKERS
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Wed Feb 07 2001 07:09 pm

> >> Very VERY silly [not to mention ethnocentric] );-)
> 
> TH> Not to mention pretty stupid as well. It may be "humor", but it 
> 
> <FX: shake head> my "ethnocentric" comment was refering to the completely
> USAian cultural references. As a lowly non-Yank I really had strain the grey
> matter to ID some of the references. I _think_ I only missed references to
> political & other public figures. But AFAIC as a proud Terrian first &
> Australian second I wasn't going to waste any more effort. I had enough
> cultural references to grock the post.


I wasn't so much referring to the ethnocentric comment.


> Sprituality & Christocentrism didn't come into it.
> 
> TH> paints all Christians as evil and tolerant of those who murder.
> 
> & You _don't_ paint any of us lowlifes as evil people as a whole spritual
> group??


No, I don't. Never have. But you do seem to have a NEED to believe that.
Perhaps it forms a 
good excuse for the hatred that I've seen you issue?

Give up the victim-complex.


> TH> But then again, you and a few others here have done a good job of 
> TH> falling for the politically-correct version of "tolerance",         
> 
> Geee... My Non-USAian dictionaries all refer to a defination I've lived by 
for
> the 2 decades of my adulthood. PC has nothing to do with it...
> 
>         1. indulgence for beliefs of practices differing from 
>                 one's own.
>         2. an allowable variation from a standard diminsion.
> 
> & second dictionary.... Woops sorry this one is an Australian one..
> 
>         1. Willing to put up with behavious you don't like or agree 
>                 with.
>         2. Willing to accept other people's beliefs and customs. 
>                 (example "There is no place for racism in a tolerant 
>                  society")


That's not the definition of "tolerance" that your words center aorund
though. See my reply to 
the Bush posting for an example.


> <FX: light bulb> Ahhh so _that_'s your problem.... 


What does it say about you if you have no real arguments, but can only
offer petty insults? If 
you want to zing me, hey, that's fine - just try to have some kind of
intelligent reasoning behind 
it. Surely that's not to much to ask, is it?


> TH> so to post that kind of stuff is nothing less than hypocrisy for 
> TH> you and your cause.
> 
> Not really... Considering that all this is coming from a country founded 
'cause
> of spritual intolerance from the mother country & proudly claims to accept
> other country's "poor (etc)" I think that claim is misdirected ...


Ah, let's seeee, characterizing Christianity according to a few demonized
personalities - nah, 
that's not hypocritical...
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