Text 3066, 62 rader
Skriven 2007-06-22 09:20:03 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
   Kommentar till text 2971 av Björn Felten (3:640/305)
Ärende: Nipple slip
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Björn Felten wrote in a message to Björn Forsström:

 BF> This is why I don't think you deserve the honor to be here in Fidonet.
 BF> Go back to sleep and let the adults talk.

 BF>    I disagree, Björn. I think it's good for fidonet that Christian
 BF> fanatics like him are given the opportunity to display their narrow
 BF> minded opinions even in our network.

 BF>    Remember that every single US politician -- from the president
 BF> down to the most obscure congressman and down to even the local
 BF> sheriff -- is Christian in the US. Should anyone of them openly
 BF> proclaim that they are not, they'll be off after the next election.

 BF>    It's not a coincident that I, just a couple of weeks ago, posted
 BF> the famous words of Noam Chomsky in the Food for Thoughts section
 BF> of the Snooze: 

 BF>  "Goebbels was in favour of free speech for views he liked. So  
 BF> was Stalin. If you're in favour of free speech, then you're   in
 BF> favour of freedom of speech precisely for views you
 BF>   despise. Otherwise, you're not in favour of free speech."

 BF>    That religious fanatics all over the world are trying as hard as
 BF> they can to forbid people with opposing views to express those
 BF> views is not surprising. Many of them live in dictatorships, so
 BF> they have never tasted Free Speech, so they may be excused.

 BF>    But most Christian fanatics live under the comforting blanket of
 BF> a democracy with it's outspoken Freedom of Speech. Those fanatics
 BF> are amongst the most despicable people on this globe IMHO. For they
 BF> use their FoS to utter their perverted PoVs but are desperately
 BF> trying to prevent everyone else from exercising that very same
 BF> right.

 BF>    The biggest irony of it all is, that their Founding Fathers were
 BF> very well aware of the fact that here in Europe, almost every war
 BF> was a religious one. So, in the very first sentence -- Amendment I
 BF> -- of their Bill of Rights, they wrote:

 BF>   "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of   
 BF> religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
 BF>    abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
 BF>    right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition   
 BF> the government for a redress of grievances."

 BF>    This is so beautifully put, that one might wish that all other
 BF> countries would adopt it. And many have -- even if it wasn't more
 BF> than about ten years ago we in Sweden no longer had every new-born
 BF> child forcibly joined to the Swedish (Christian) Church. But in the
 BF> US they have gone in the opposite direction, happily ignoring the
 BF> basic thoughts that's behind the elegant wording above...  :(

This post of yours will serve as an example of why I will not write an article
for the Snooze as long as you or anyone who thinks like you is the editor.


Regards,

Roger 
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