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Santi :
Thanks for the reminder – I, too, was young and good looking then! Seriously, though, he was spot-on. 20 years ago!
The sad thing is that we in the ‘enlightened’ (decadent?) West learnt nothing from the affair :
The Mohammed cartoons (10 years ago). Abject apologies.
Proposed burning of the Quran (just the other day). Appeasement from Obama.
Terry Eagleton et al continue to suggest that ‘Ditchkins’ and the rest of us atheists should be polite to religions!
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Colin,
There’s a time and a season for everything. I really think that one should gear rhetoric to who you’re talking to, and ask what your purpose is in using the rhetoric. I’m not, in making this observation, advocating cowardice or a failure to be direct. But there are physical realities and there are social realities. Life is lived in judging both of these realities intelligently.
—Santi