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5 Sep 2024 17:12:09 EDT (-0400)
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From: David H  Burns
Date: 30 Jul 2009 11:37:07
Message: <4a71be23$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> David H. Burns wrote:
>> no real connection
>> between believing in the fundamentals of something and being violent 
>> about it.
> 
> Except perhaps in religions that tell you everyone who doesn't believe 
> as you do are subhuman, which is my point.

Or in anyone who regards those who disagree with him as subhuman or 
moronic. :)
> 
>> "Fundamentalist" and "fundamentalist" have been
>> destroyed as useful descriptive terms and become largely pejorative. :)
> 
> Gee, I wonder who might have caused that?

The media and those who take up their usages (e.g. all of us to a 
certain extent). Don't
take this to mean that media act from motives of religious or other 
prejudices. They don't;
they have other concerns. And the media are not engaged in a 
"conspiracy". Member of
the media do, however, follow and imitate one another.

David :)
>


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