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To: Sea Otter who wrote (39)	1/15/2001 4:36:35 PM
From: David R	Respond to of 40

You freely mix blind adherence to a system of religious values to faith. Biblical faith was always meant to be based on reason and fact. Not some mindless muddle. Never in the Bible are faith and reson ever seperated. Blind-faith is not a Biblical virtue. It is only the post-modernist world that has redefined faith as subjective nonsense. I also question your use of the term "Intolerance". You clearly associate intolerance with "Absolute certainty [of belief], hostility, and ignorance". Thus anybody who strongly believes that their system of beliefs is correct is intolerant. Your definition of intolerance is actually intolerance at its worst as any who do not agree with the premise upon which it is defined are bigots. Were it not so tragic, I would have to laugh at the post-modernist fools who utter such nonsense as "We will not tolerate intolerance." Two truly tolerant people would be able to sit down an civilly discuss their differences. They would respect the other's beliefs, even if they were certain that they were wrong. They would not resort to the sorts of ad hominem attacks that you so freely use ("One thing I've found about rightwingers is that they're usually not well educated or informed about the world"). PErhaps you should open your copy of Webster's and review the definition of intolerance.