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Heddi

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2. I predict that the exact people who should see this won't.

Reply to MellowDem (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2015, 09:23 PM

May 2015

They'll be beleaguered with less-than-optimal web speeds, unable do to anything but type on an already-bogged down and slow to load website for hours on end betwixt watching Cuba Gooding movies about lovable homophobic bigots. But this...no, too much bandwidth. It takes too long. It's buffering. Maybe they can watch it when they get better internet in the year 7653.

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On Respecting Beliefs [View all] MellowDem May 2015 OP

Wretched, weak, selfish creatures, powerless to resist all manner of temptations. Fumesucker May 2015 #1

I predict that the exact people who should see this won't. Heddi May 2015 #2

Or they will, but... mr blur May 2015 #5

What a sweetheart you are. Starboard Tack May 2015 #10

. hrmjustin May 2015 #14

I do find many of the beliefs of various religions as completely dehumanizing.... Humanist_Activist May 2015 #3

Powerful. Thanks. n/t. bvf May 2015 #4

I'm curious. What did you find so "powerful"? Starboard Tack May 2015 #23

"I'm curious." bvf May 2015 #24

He didn't say anything about phil89 May 2015 #27

Excellent piece, thank you! ( nt) mr blur May 2015 #6

What did you think was excellent about it? Starboard Tack May 2015 #22

I disrespect your dog. Does the dog give a shit? rug May 2015 #7

The disrespect is directed against harmful ideologies Yorktown May 2015 #8

"Eventually, against the fundamentalists" rug May 2015 #13

Some religious doctrines require fundamentalism. Yorktown May 2015 #15

It looks like you don't understand what fundamentalism is. rug May 2015 #16

. hrmjustin May 2015 #17

fundamentalism means the literal application of some ideological program. Yorktown May 2015 #18

The cure for literalism is not more literalism. rug May 2015 #19

Well said rug! hrmjustin May 2015 #20

You are wrong. Literalist pacifism is not a danger. Yorktown May 2015 #21

"Literalist pacifism"? rug May 2015 #25

What a subtle point you made. Yorktown May 2015 #30

Doubtless. But the subject is literalism. rug May 2015 #31

And it is what I answered to Yorktown May 2015 #32

So does your church show respect or disrespect towards LGBT people... Humanist_Activist May 2015 #9

That teaching from your (former) church is ignorant and disrespectful. rug May 2015 #11

Sorry phil89 May 2015 #28

No active Catholic has credibility on this subject? rug May 2015 #29

Why would anyone feel obliged to respect the beliefs of others? Starboard Tack May 2015 #12

I can sign on to this set of statements. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #26