New US textbook aims to teach Bible as knowledge

If the Bible could be included with all the other religious books in a study, it would be hard to argue against it. Putting it in a class all alone in a government sanctioned setting is not the way to go.

fanatic

adj : marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatical, overzealous, rabid] n : a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause).

Based on what you've shown me, I think that fits you okay. (Maybe you use a different definition.) But you're right; it was retaliatory.

I do see your flat refusal to consider other points of view as at least a mild paranoia, given you have not, that I have seen, done much to reasonably defend your position.

You have preferred to throw mud.

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It gets rather tedious pointing this out, but, once again, you responded to what i had written by referring to my "paranoia," and succeeded that with an accusation of fanaticism. Yet you persist in taking some holier-than-thou stance implying that you offer sweet reason while i offer personal attacks. I suggest you visit that portion of the scripture which deals with motes, beams and eyes.

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And I did not expect you to take my paranoia comment as any great insult. It isn't like I called you a "clown" or "snotty", or anything.

I see, so you're keeping score? Saying that someone is indulging paranoia is not to be considered to be as insulting as accusing someone of having made a snotty remark? How long before we are lead to consider the possible number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin? You get out of such an exchange what you put into it. I made no reference to a snotty remark until one had been made. I did not characterize you as a clown until you had characterized me as a fanatic. Now you want to whine about it and attempt to wrap yourself in superior morality. Are your olfactory organs defective? Can you not sense the stench of hypocricy?

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And I don't get your questioning my sense of personal responsibility. Can you explain?

Couple that with the question about irony. You are here accusing me of making personal remarks when, in fact, you began the series of slighting characterizations.

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fanatic

adj : marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatical, overzealous, rabid] n : a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause).

Based on what you've shown me, I think that fits you okay. (Maybe you use a different definition.) But you're right; it was retaliatory.

Fond of attempting to have your cake and eat it as well? How charming of you to admit to what was all too obvious--that you were indulging in personal remarks before you complained of it to me.

I see, so you're keeping score? Saying that someone is indulging paranoia is not to be considered to be as insulting as accusing someone of having made a snotty remark? How long before we are lead to consider the possible number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin? You get out of such an exchange what you put into it. I made no reference to a snotty remark until one had been made. I did not characterize you as a clown until you had characterized me as a fanatic. Now you want to whine about it and attempt to wrap yourself in superior morality. Are your olfactory organs defective? Can you not sense the stench of hypocricy?