Mustafa, when you make a personal email list and keep sending messages
to people regardless of the fact that they ask you to remove them from
your list and flat out tell them that you will continue to do so you are
being very disrespectful and unethical. They may be Christians, Jews or
most anything else. You are still being disrespectful. When you are
disrespectful to other people you will have to expect that they will be
disrespectful right back at you. When you do this to other people you
are just asking for them to become hostile to you.
On 8/1/2017 11:40 AM, Bob Evans wrote:
I agree with you but I refuse your claim that I am disrespectful
toward Jews and Christians. I criticise ignorance of people not their
beliefs.
I hope you get this.
You may add to your suggestions not to assume things about people we don't know.
On 8/1/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Please everybody, take all personal attacks, arguments regarding religion,
and posts from other lists, off Blind Democracy. I, and I'm sure other
people, am skipping all emails with the name, Bob Evans, or Mustafa, and
with any subject lines regarding religion. If Mustafa is disrespectful
toward Christians and Jews, so are our non believing list members who feel
impelled to repeat over and over again their reasons for thinking that
religion is nonsense, and that all believers are stupid and ignorant. One's
religious identity is part of one's personal identity. When, in the guise
of
intellectual discussion, you attack an individual's religious belief, it
feels to that person like a personal attack. For people on the political
left, who see themselves as defenders of humanity and civil liberties,
these
attacks on other people's beliefs are unforgiveable. And it is unnecessary
to fight back with stronger or nastier language, when one feels attacked.
That's precisely what Mr. Trump does. Sometimes, silence is the better part
of valor.
Miriam
