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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (54631)	8/14/2002 2:54:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

One's interests are to some extent guided by such criteria........ It seems like one's interests would also be guided by alliance forming to meet one's objectives. IMO, this hostility to religion that is so annoying to folks like you would not exist but or the less constructive aspects of religion. Non-religious people are either amoral/immoral people, who don't bother to debate religion and morals and would be negative elements of society with or without belief. Or they are nice people whose morality is simply more individual and/or less doctrinaire. It is this latter group that would be your natural allies in creating a society that fosters the dignity of humanity. But they argue against the less suitable aspects of religion in a way that ends up looking like a general hostility to religion largely, IMO, because these proponents of less suitable religious doctrines have the audacity to look down on them. If they were made to feel accepted and if religionists were more discriminating on their support of the various aspects of religion, I think that your interests would be better met. I think that inclusive attitude would obviate the kind of reaction that produces suits against the Pledge or diatribes about the nastier elements of religion. This distorted war is very non-constructive.