The Sword of Courteous Debate ([info]meowse) wrote,
@ 2007-08-23 20:03:00
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I am so fucking sick of fundamentalists.
Of any stripe. Any religion. Get the fuck off my planet, you sick fucks.

Fundamentalist religious nutbars (of, in this case, the Jewish variety) burn down a crematorium in Israel.

You know my standard for detecting fundamentalists, nowadays? People who think that their beliefs give them rights.

Hello, fuckwits. Beliefs do not give you rights. Beliefs give you funny little ideas in your heads that you walk around intellectually masturbating to. Beliefs give you things to talk about at cocktail parties, and have shouting matches with other fundamentalists about when they differ.

But they do not give you rights.

They don't give you the right to shoot abortionists.
They don't give you the right to crash airplanes into buildings.
They don't give you the right to burn down crematoria.
They don't give you the right to teach your mythology to my child.
They don't give you the right to lock schoolgirls inside burning buildings because they aren't wearing veils.
They don't give you the right to stab peaceful gay pride parade marchers.

They don't give you any rights.

You can believe whatever the hell you want to believe. You can talk about your beliefs to any adult you can persuade to give you the time of day. You can even, because I haven't figured out a way to stop you yet that isn't a cure worse than the disease, indoctrinate your own poor children into believing the same damned things.

But you don't get any special rights for believing them.

Think you do?

Then you're a fundamentalist.

And I am so fucking sick of you.



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[info]hundr
2007-08-24 03:16 am UTC (link)
Amen.

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[info]gramina
2007-08-24 03:26 am UTC (link)
Well-reasoned, well-defined, and well-put.

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[info]dragonwhishes
2007-08-24 03:39 am UTC (link)
A-fucking-men.

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[info]zombiechocolate
2007-08-24 04:03 am UTC (link)
You beat me to it. Hah!

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[info]zombiechocolate
2007-08-24 03:59 am UTC (link)

A-FUCKING-MEN!!!!

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[info]wolfwings
2007-08-24 06:58 am UTC (link)
This is very well explained reasoning, and and in fact explains my own thoughts quite well.

As many others have said, spot on.

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[info]meowse
2007-08-24 08:29 am UTC (link)
Please, please do. I want as many people as possible thinking about this meme.

Beliefs don't give you rights.

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[info]greyaenigma
2007-08-24 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Amen.

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[info]dougo
2007-08-24 06:21 pm UTC (link)
So say we all.

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[info]klicrai
2007-08-24 09:02 pm UTC (link)
My sentiments exactly (only put more eloquently than I could), I am so reposting this!

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[info]fenriss
2007-08-25 12:29 am UTC (link)
This is a very important meme. I think it strikes at the heart of the problem. You hear a lot of Christian fundamentalists (and I use this example simply because they are only variety I encounter very often) complaining that they feel their rights are being increasingly violated "these days." I think this may be because they are under the mistaken impression that they get to have special rights, beyond those of others, conferred by their status as Believers.

Huh. Interesting stuff. Thanks very much. Oh, and came here by way of [info]number42. And I really love your user name!

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[info]housepet
2007-08-25 08:54 pm UTC (link)
"you don't get any special rights for believing them."

What you *do* get are special responsibilities not to harm, and to be a positive fostering entity among darknesses.

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[info]ghostgecko
2007-08-29 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Yep. Fundies are always whining that their beliefs are not respected. They don't seem to realize respect has to be earned.

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[info]xerhino
2007-09-17 05:07 am UTC (link)
So, wait. Are you saying that a gang lord who tells his homies that members of the rival gang need to die and a religious leader who tells his parishioners that members of a rival religion need to die should both be tried for conspiracy to commit murder (at the very least)? Equal treatment under the law? Yay! I vote for you.

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