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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Inferring consent from silence
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 10:08:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 10:08:07 1985
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> >    Let me add my voice to those of Jeff Gillette and Charley Wingate:
> > Silence does *not* necessarily imply consent.  I read many, many
> > articles in this newsgroup expressing positions with which I disagree
> > and representing religions or groups within my own religion with
> > views different from my own.  Only a few are interesting enough to
> > me to take the trouble to reply (and to reply to the news and mail
> > replies which may result from my own article) -- perhaps 1/2 of 1%.
> > Obviously -- isn't it obvious? -- it should not be inferred that I
> > agree with the other 99.5% of what is posted to net.religion.
> >                                       N. L. Tinkham
> 
      I don't know about anyone else, but I often fail to respond to 
incredibly stupid or hate-filled postings, *especially* when it is obvious
that nothing I can say will change the author's views.  I'd rather not
be assumed to be agreeing with these jerks.

> People, can you not see the difference between doctrinal disagreements
> and *evil*?  Is even obnoxious atheism the same threat to humanity as
> Nazism? 
         So nice to hear that you don't think we're quite as evil as
Nazis.  What did we ever do to you?  It's pretty damned amazing to hear
someone denouncing the Nazis, while in the same breath, showing
the kind of intolerance they were famous for.  (Actually, I'm an agnostic,
rather than an athiest, but I'm sure you find us every bit as odious.)
> 
> 		--Steve Bellovin
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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