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--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "J. Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Most people think that freedom of belief is desirable. > Only secularism provides this freedom. Religious indoctrination does not. Fundamentalism of any kind does not. > >Every one of us holds a view of the universe (whether >atheist or otherwise). > Those of us who are religious or atheistic, and hold our respective views based on faith and are not afraid to admit it, are indeed courageous, and deserve all the respect in the world. Those of us who are agnostic because of our scientific world view, and out of humility, deserve an equal amount of respect. But those who try to rationalize in denial of faith what is essentially their religious view, and claim to hold it based on some transparently false notion of scientific evidence, deserve to be challenged and rebuffed at every step. > >Disparaging the views of others opens the door to hatred (and even >bloodshed). > Only if you are thoughtless, intolerant, deceitful and violent. If you are a courageous individual who is deeply concerned about the world around you, it is your duty to speak out against the views with which you disagree. > >I am happy to listen to anyone extol the merits of their own view. > I reserve the right to criticize them if I disagree with them. > >I am not enthusiastic about disparaging the views of others. > I consider it my duty to disparage the views with which I strongly disagree, especially those which I consider to be harmful to humanity. Most of us who love freedom of belief will not surrender our right to dissent at any cost. There is no freedom of belief without freedom of disbelief. > >Hopefully most of us will be too busy with productive work to belittle >the views of others. > Some views, such as the ones expressed in this post that I am responding to, are so woefully trite that one is forced to take time out of one's productive work to partake of the pleasure of belittling them. Cheers, Santosh ---------------------------------------------------------- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Nov 07 Creative science, for children, Goa Sc Centre (till 16.11) Nov 10 Corporate summit on IT and biotechnology, Intl Centre (till 11.11) Nov 17 Goan Engineers and Assoc meet, at Pickering, Canada. Nov 20 Fr Agnelo's 75th death anniversary, Pilar Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal ----------------------------------------------------------
