Cutting the head off Medusa

[LastPoet]

If we were truly interested in a fight appeals to the perceived high ground would be meaningless. In a conflict there are only winners and losers. Even so, if someone can explain why it should bother me that I'm intolerant of intolerance, or malicious towards those who harbor malice, I'd be greatly obliged. Before we invoke the hypothetical "decent" christian, their decency and their christianity are decidely different subjects. One might be decent, but one could not be decently christian, at least not by my count. My count, of course, being my own business and in no way indicative of reality in and of itself.

I have no respect for religion, but I am able to respect people that are religious, and that's my whole point. The fact that I don't believe in gods shouldn't give me pause in offering a person the minimum respect I would expect of them. Perhaps 'stooping to their level' gives perception that I'm appealing to a higher ground or a perceived one, but I for one don't feel the need to constantly bash people on the slightest sign of religiousness.

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BULLSHIT, not liking my word choice does not make me intolerant.

Here is how you are childishly reacting.

NFL FAN X "The chargers won the Super Bowl this year"

NFL FAN Y "Bullshit, the Giants did"

Otherwise Einstein in his last letter before he died was being intolerant by calling the Hebrew faith "noble but childish".

GO BACK and read my OP.

Intolerant would be demanding the arrest of people who make absurd claims. If you can show me where I claimed that, then you could claim I was being intolerant. Merely saying you have no right to be free from being offended, does not make me intolerant.

THE church of Galileo's time that put him under house arrest was intolerant. Iran is intolerant to dissent. Merely saying you have no right to set up taboos and prevent me from questioning any claim is hardly intolerant.

The 9/11 hijackers were intolerant. Stalin was intolerant. Merely saying "you are full of shit" does not mean I will kill you or have you arrested.

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Sorry, it might be me, but that doesn't make any sense to me?!?!?!?! I'm not familiar with the NFL (European). Either way, call it 'word choice', I don't care, If you aren't intolerant whats the point of this thread?