You are well aware of my opposition to racism, slavery, misogyny, and other violations of human rights and decency.
A number of posts ago, I mentioned that many religions had a component of racial favoritism within them. This, of course, has been researched and understood since scholarship took her first steps.
He denied that the Old Testament had any racism, thus impugning either my character, or my honesty. I asked him several times to leave it alone. I did not wish to drag any of the racist people on other threads back into the limelight.
He refused to leave it alone, and continued to debate what he knew was unquestioned: that the Jewish bible is about the special status of Jews; it is THE Jewish religion.
Judaism does not recognize anything in the New Testament, which is fine. I state that so there is no misunderstanding as to what we were discussing...entirely against my will, as I said 3 times to him).
Rather than either debate the issue decently, or leave it alone as I asked him to...he indulged in one of his favourite things. He prepared about 6 or 7 silly posts so as to overwhelm me with silliness. When I responded with the facts, he recognized immediately that his gambit had been called and had failed (I suppose he hoped or thought me a fool), and he immediately responded with a racial slur against me...referring to me as a person who is antipodal to semites.
I will not qualify intellectual honesty except in the most intimate and personal circumstances. I am certainly not intimate with Neo, and I will not permit him (in declaiming to me) to play with facts as if they were unimportant. |
