furthermore, while it might suit your narrow worldview to assume that non-beilief in god means nothing matters I consider myself existentialist. As Satre said, existence precedes and rules essence. Far from that nothing matters what matters is what I choose to matter to me.
On another not, to quote Joan Smith, a wonderful columnist here:
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We do not need to be reminded of what Voltaire said or is supposed to have said on the subject of free speech but inherit in it is the important distinction between respecting someone's right to express those views and being forced to respect those views, however irrational. If people want to believe that Jesus was God's son or that Mohammed was his prophet I have no problem with that; if they believe in life after death, that's fine too. What they can't insist is that I take any of it seriously, not for a single moment.
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05-10-2005, 06:16 PM
Hybrid Mode
