RE: Thoughts on the Woolwich killing
June 3, 2013 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2013 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Pot meet kettle. What is or is not [insert ghost story here] is so nebulous, ethereal, and ill defined as to be useless. The only operative and demonstrable factor available for consideration is the adherents belief in whatever is [insert ghost story here]- and in that regard they are all equivalent. Make no mistake, no problem is being ignored, various competing adherents are insisting that there is no problem -with their faith- acknowledging otherwise would force them to appraise their belief set in a way that they are unwilling or unable to do. So - it's not "a problem with [insert ghost story here]" - it becomes a problem - "because it is not [insert ghost story here]". It's not an act of ignoring a problem, but an act of manufacturing a simpler problem to rid oneself of a stickier problem.
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