Reed:
>> Agreed. The inquisition was an act of fear, not faith.
>>
>> Hatred, fear, anger, rage, revenge, bloodlust...each cloaks itself
>> in sheepskin.
>>
>Nice thought - but wrong - Fear driven by faith. Necessitated by that faith.
>Reason cant make that claim. Reason cannot drive fear and does not fead fear
>or bloodlust or the others. Faith calls for death and destruction
>explicitly. That is the difference.
>
>Bill Roh
We differ in opinion. Communism is a "rational" worldview...at least, it cloaks itself in reason. The "Red scare", the RAND corporations upside-down game theories...all of these were abject fear cloaked in reason and mathematics. Many times fear drives reason, and reason produces. Now, you go ahead a cleave everything negative from reason and put it in some other category...even the stormtroopers were dressed in shining white armor. If you can shuffle categories like a Kantian shell game, I can shuffle all the faster becuase I don't claim to be completely rational.
Try me.
Reed
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