Michael:
Ease up. You're going off half-cocked (not good for a shootist or a lover).
>>People who believe in a faith are just a bunch of lazy minded morons huh?<<
Some are. They replace reason with faith. Let others think for them. And become vile parrots spouting whatever their favorite evangelist happens to spout on any given day. But you didn't comment on any of the other reasons I mentioned, so I guess you must think they are valid.
>>Freedom does not mean only economic freedom, but spiritual freedom as well. It seems to me in your utopian society<<
I do not promote a "utopian society" maybe you think it would be so preferable to the one we have you keep reverting to calling it that.
>>you would want to ban the expression of religios persuits.<<
You speaking for me now, huh? I NEVER advocated that!
>>(Just like the Former Soviet Union did). If not ban, your utopian society would certaintly judge these people in a very negative harsh way.<<
Even if they were judged "harshly" (which I doubt, more likely they would be humourously tolerated unless they started up with some legislative hijinks based on "higher principles"), they would still have all their rights protected.
>>Let's see now, your free to do anything you please as long as it fits your selfish motivations, but if you practice religion, your an idiot and will be labelled by our society as such. Sounds kinda hypocritical to me Terrence.<<
How did you arrive at this? Through "higher thinking"? I never advocated this. Better start thinking or soon you'll start clacking (like a parrot).
>>This may suprise you Terrence but there are millions of people in the good old USA who regularly practice there faith and are not doing it because they are afraid of death or because they want to control other people. You've been meeting too many Maharishe's at the airport or something Terrence.<<
No, how about "good" christians in Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Apostolic, etc. churches to name a few. I keep track of the politics of these religions. I read their publications. Karl Marx would've been proud.
>>The funny thing is Terrence, I believe if you had a son and he was randomly hit by a car and was dying in the hospitial, you would be one of the first one's to find a quiet place in the hospital and pray to God to save his life. Ayn Rand and her philosophy would be the last thing on your mind.<<
Actually, when my father died, I thought of Ayn Rand. For he and I had many arguments about Objectivism before he conceded that she was correct in her thinking. One of my good friends who first gave me a copy of "The Fountainhead" died in a skiing accident some years ago. I often think of him when I read Ayn Rand's works.
And my first wife, who died more than ten years ago, quoted Ayn Rand to me -- almost with her dying breath. She asked me to always continue living by the credo we had adopted as our own:
"I swear, by my life, and love of it, that I shall never live for the sake of another Man, nor ask another Man to live for my sake."
Father Terrence |
