Patrick Elliott wrote:
> In article <475### [at] hotmailcom>, a_l### [at] hotmailcom 
> says...
>> Note to Patrick: you might think that if I tell you I am an atheist that 
>> you know what I think and how I should behave. Believe me, you haven't 
>> got a clue.
>>
> 
> Odd. And here I thought I mentioned the whole "herding cats" concept at 
> some point. lol But seriously, as long as you are not one of those, "If 
> we are nice to the wackos, then eventually we will win!", types, we 
> might get along. 

Me? I  am one of the wacko's, I'd think.

> If you are, then I would remind you that we have been 
> trying that for the last 150 years and they **still** think we are the 
> spawn of Satan, out to destroy them, and too militant, strident, close 
> minded and/or confused and ignorant of the truth as they did 150 years 
> ago. 

Somewhere I mentioned that I am dutch. Things are a bit different here.

> At best, the fact that nothing they have claimed to be true, or 
> tried as an alternative to secular solutions, has worked as well (or 
> some times at all), is the only reason we are winning the battle. And as 
> fun as it is to watch fools throw water balloons at the castle wall, 
> while disdaining the open gate, which merely requires that they agree to 
> play by the rules to get in legitimately, I have to start to wonder how 
> effective playing nice still is, when they stop using water balloons and 
> start trying, however poorly, to construct ladders and primitive 
> catapults. The fact that 90% of the time the ladders fall apart and the 
> catapults are aimed in random directions doesn't matter much if they 
> manage to accidentally launch enough priests over the wall. Sadly, some 
> fools on our side of the wall are just as susceptible to some types of 
> woo as the people standing around outside.
>

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