Please everybody, take all personal attacks, arguments regarding religion,
and posts from other lists, off Blind Democracy. I, and I'm sure other
people, am skipping all emails with the name, Bob Evans, or Mustafa, and
with any subject lines regarding religion. If Mustafa is disrespectful
toward Christians and Jews, so are our non believing list members who feel
impelled to repeat over and over again their reasons for thinking that
religion is nonsense, and that all believers are stupid and ignorant. One's
religious identity is part of one's personal identity. When, in the guise of
intellectual discussion, you attack an individual's religious belief, it
feels to that person like a personal attack. For people on the political
left, who see themselves as defenders of humanity and civil liberties, these
attacks on other people's beliefs are unforgiveable. And it is unnecessary
to fight back with stronger or nastier language, when one feels attacked.
That's precisely what Mr. Trump does. Sometimes, silence is the better part
of valor.
Miriam