[MD] Pragmatically useful Religion

[John Carl]

> dmb says:
>
> Why sir, I do believe that is the e-mail equivalent of a temper tantrum.
> It's a wonder that you could operate a keyboard, what with all the kicking
> and screaming and spitting and flailing your arms about. Jeez.
>

Well, I wouldn't construe it that way, but your interpretation is quite an
insight into the way you look at things.



>
> I wasn't even talking to you, man. You probably figured I was talking about
> you and that's fair enough. I guess you'd probably count as one who has
> tried to "squeeze an endorsement of theism out of Pirsig" but my comments
> were directed to Ron and they referred to just about every theist that ever
> showed up here.
>


Whomever they were directed "to", all communication in this forum is fair
game for comment, you have to admit.

And I find your whole attitude objectionable whether its directed at me
personally or just at them tea-baggin', shotgun totin'  fundamentalist
wackos that you spread with a broad brush across your whole presentation.
So my words apply whether you were addressing me or not.



> I'll take your ranting, raving denial as an admission of guilt. Obviously,
> a nerve has been struck by complaints about theists with an agenda and so I
> figure you must be one of them.
>
>
Right.  John the ole sheep in wolf's disguise.

"you figure" I must be one of them.

"you figure" and therefore it's absolute truth.  But you don't even have
good reasoning behind your "figuring"  all you have is an attitude of
anti-theistic, anti-conservative, knee jerk reactions for anything that
doesn't fit neatly with your divine personal experience.

I gotta say, you figure wrong more often than anybody I know, and yet are
more sure of yourself.

I ain't impressed.


John spewing, kicking and screaming, spitting and flailing.