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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (3327)	9/21/1999 12:45:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Let's see: should one give an entire biography whenever making comments? I am, for example, from a working class/lower middle class background. I was first brought up a Conservative Jew, but after my parents were divorced, my mother (who had converted) returned to Roman Catholicism, and took me and my brothers with her. However, I merely went along to please her, and by the time I was 16 was an atheist. On the other hand, a couple of years later, I was a theist, and flirted with returning to Judaism. It didn't take, and after college I was a (believing) Roman Catholic, until, after several years, I became too doubtful to feel comfortable in any particular denomination. I was born in Washington D.C., and raised, for the most part, in the Maryland suburbs. In my neighborhood, the kids actually argued about which side they would have taken in the civil war, and I always was strongly pro- Union...... ......I could go on to satisfy the arbitrary requirements of those who enjoy turning arguments personal, and making malicious accusations whenever they cannot deal with the arguments at hand, but why would I? Of course, some people do not require any real facts, but are content to make accusations based upon ludicrous speculations, so that one is forced to defend oneself against amateur psychoanalysis anyway. I have been made out a snob and social climber, why should I object to much of any imputation at this point? I cannot protest too strongly the accusation of having a "hidden agenda", because it is a tar- baby accusation, and the more vigorously I struggle, the more emphatically does it stick. It matters not that I have not disavowed all religious belief, only that I will not make admissions that I do not feel warranted. "Here I stand, I can do nothing else"......