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To: Dayuhan who wrote (472)	9/3/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1542

This thread has accomplished one great thing: congregated all the lunatic zealots in one place and pulled them off the other threads. For this, many thanks. Not only that but further, it exposes to what extent can blind faith push a human being, I hope they continue to come out of the wood work to show the world their "mission in life". As I have said a million times, Religious beliefs are personal private and individual, and so long they are kept in such fashion, I will respect that person, the instant their preaching starts, then I say, screw them, they are game and I will give them a piece of my mind about their beliefs and their preaching. Religions which require their members to preach aggressively to the unbelievers raise an interesting question about religious freedom. Doesn't evangelism interfere with the right of others to peaceful practice of their own religions? When exercise of religious freedom becomes harassment, it is no longer a right. Indeed.... My friend H L Mencken put it very clear: "I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors." The right to privacy is equally important, and you address such right appropriately. Believing that something is absolute truth does not make it so, and we all must consider the possibility that the other person is right. Quite! Again Mencken: ""Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. .... The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." Lastly do not forget that anyone should have not only freedom of religion, but more importantly, freedom FROM religion. As in the famous words of "The Talking Heads" I ask myself: When will they ever learn...WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN!!! Z.