(February 19, 2011 at 11:13 pm)The Lord is God Wrote: People who are losing a reasonable argument always give into juvenile threats and name-calling. Reasonable people with intelligent arguments present their sides, not in order to change one's mind, but to render what they believe is a reasonable presentation for what they believe, to encourage intelligent and mature debate, while maintaining one's dignity and to be appropriate in the eyes of those who observe the issue.
Your wishing me to be committed is the obvious conclusion of a person who cannot and will not tolerate a view opposing yours.
The third Reich had as its defense in Nuremberg when asked what happened to dissenting voices in Germany. The answer was, "All those who opposed the Reich were six feet under"
So ends the debate. Good night Mrs Calabash wherever you are.
Ah... good old godwin fallacy. Smells like... failure.
I have to ask the obvious question, because what, exactly, was debated here, on this thread?
You came here, made a bunch of ill-informed and ludicrous assertions based on faulty reasoning and when people gathered around and collectively wondered "WTF", you decided to now mark your success based on our inability to see another conclusion?
The debate has indeed ended, but then again, you never really presented us with something to debate.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
