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nice points Danse

Submitted by gretavo on Mon, 2007-07-30 20:49.

I used to think less of religious people (as an adolescent) but after pursuing the "scientific" path to truth long enough I realized that it is as much based on faith as religion--ultimately no scientist can answer the fundamental question of existence--i've found a personal philosophy that accepts the one-ness of the universe and everything in it is my own "positivist" solution.

On Judaism, the difference is in the creed itself--it does not actively seek converts, which is fine, but it doesn't traditionally even welcome them as a rule. Christianity was about, among other things, opening the worhip of the god of the old testament to all people. In any case religion should be a personal choice and exclusion is fine, but in the case of Judaism cum Zionism it has found a rather negative expression. No less than any number of militant and intolerant strains of any other religion. I am against tyranny of the mind as such, not any one faith.

As for the holocaust, the 6 million and all that, it IS a shame, and should be alarming (and revealing) to people that discussion of the issue is forbidden by law insomuch as it does not conform to the state's conception of what it entailed. Living under that kind of tyranny is quite simply not living in my opinion--it is having your life lived for you. I intend to use my freedoms before I lose them!

And yes, in the end I would much prefer to die standing than to live kneeling.

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