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From: samuels@houxz.UUCP (M.SAMUELS)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Insults and Guilt
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 08:36:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 08:36:06 1984
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Clyde,
	Thanks for the comments!   I always wondered
why people who argued at school board meeting against
school prayer were called smug, arrogant, and
insulting - just because they didn't want their
children learning someone else's Bible!  My
comments were insulting because they were
intended to be insulting; I'm tired of having
to listen to others tell me my life would be
wonderful if I'd only accept their god(s).

	Your second set of comments interests me
more.  You emphasized the word ALWAYS implying
that I always think before I act.  How boring!
Life would be quite dull if people did that.
What I said was that I am willing to take
responsibility for what I do; I don't ask
for your forgiveness, God's, god's, or
Charles Darwin's.  If I do something stupid,
I can learn from my mistake.  I have a lot
of friends and associates who keep repeating
their mistakes over and over because they are
absolved every weekend from taking responsibility
for their actions.   If that's being smug and
arrogant, too bad.  

	Waiting for the Age of Reason,
		Mike Samuels