Re: Any comments? (Evolution - was Answers to Pete)

In article <6ea53$443805cf$45491d7a$22496@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
LX-i <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

No, anymore it's about *us* respecting *them*. I would absolutely
*love* hearing a public figure stand up and say something like...

"Look, if you don't like prayer, you don't have to bow your head, and
you don't have to pray in your heart - you can sit and do a crossword
puzzle for all we care. But we are *going* to have this prayer - the
majority of people want it, it's traditional, and we're not going to
change our way of doing business because *you* are offended. There are
lots of things that *you* do that offend *us*, but we don't demand that
you cease them; rather, we're told we have to be tolerant of it. Well,
what's good for the goose is good for the gander - so tolerate *us* for
a change.

.... and then rear back his head and bellow 'ALLAHUUUUUUU AKHBAR!'? How
about 'Nam Myoho Renge Kyo'? Maybe the sacrifice of a goat to Legba, or a
human heart on the Altar of the Sun? How about a little ritualised
temple-prostitution... Astarte has been *so* neglected as of late.

What you do in private is your own concern... but on the public dime or as
a representative of the public weal... not with *my* tax dollars, no.

DD

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