At 11:28 PM 8/17/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:56:11 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sorry... I momentarily had thought you were the *other* Julia in your >> response. Anyhow, I reacted so forcefully in part because there is a >> long history of anti-religious, anti-Christian, and anti-Catholic >> sentiment on this List. > >While there are some very vocal atheists on the list (Fool, William, Erik) >and a few of us that are non-believers but not nearly as vociferous as the >others, but there are more list members I can identify as religious to >some degree (yourself, Nick, Dan, Dave, Ronn, Debbie). There are more in >each category, I'm sure, but I'll wager the ratio holds. Others on the >list I haven't seen express their belief or lack thereof. So to say that >_the list_ is anti religious is inaccurate. > >There is a larger percentage of non-believers here (than in the US at >large) so when they do speak up it probably feels as if the wheels are >coming off to those that aren't used to having their faith challenged. 8^)
Doug, I think there is a huge difference between the religious attitudes of Brin-L members vs. Brin-L posts. Quite simply, this List is consistently bombarded with a plethora of anti-religious, anti-Christian, and yes, anti-Catholic posts. For whatever reason, very few people, other than myself, speak up against them. Maybe, like me, they all have the likes of William Goodall killfiled (which I did after I realized that he had nothing to say here other than to denigrate religion). On the other hand, silence is essentially tolerance - and as Gautam has noted, anti-Christianism is America's last politically correct form of bigotry. Based on the way it is tolerated here in Brin-L, I can believe it. JDG - Ad hominem attack against the strength of my faith being treated with the contempt it deserves, faux-smiley notwithstanding..... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
