[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Platt Holden]

> [Arlo]
> This is utter nonsense. But give yourself the 20 points for insistence.
> I've said America is a great place, and any interested party can peruse
> the archives to see that your smear is only rhetorical tactics to do
> what you, now, seem to accuse me of doing. If you want to sit and have a
> masturbatory session on how great America is, feel free to start a
> thread, and I'll give you some "for instances" there. In the meantime,
> the point stands, blind obedience to social structures leads invariably
> to immorality. America is not, nor has ever been, immune to this. If you
> can't handle this without the need for a cheerleading session, that is
> your issue. Your attempts to rhetorically warp the present discussion
> into "Arlo hates America" are inane.

Just as I thought. You're hard pressed to come up with even one 
instance of  praise for something specific America has done that's good 
for the world. I never said "Arlo hates America." Just that you tend to 
look for what it has done wrong rather than what it has done right and 
continues to do right, like defend the intellectual level rights of 
free speech, free press, free religion, etc. 

Reading ahead I see you wish to terminate this discussion,.just when 
others seem to be warming to it. But, OK by me.  Maybe one of these 
days we'll see eye to eye on some political issues, but I'm not holding 
my breath.

With best regards,
Platt