P.Z. Myers in the news (the catholic church communion wafer incident)

Well, in my opinion, anyone is entitled to their delusional beliefs. However, when those delusions cause you to harass and threaten other people and generally cause you to betray sociopathic tendencies that make it impossible for you to live peaceably in society, the usual response is to confine you and forcibly medicate you.Personally, I think Donahue and the Catholic League are being let off pretty leniently by only having some crackers "desecrated".

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Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
-- M. Alan Kazlev

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wrong+wrong != right

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I'm guessing that this is supposed to be a reference to the saying, "two wrongs don't make a right." Maybe it's different in the U.K., but here in the U.S. the commonly interpretation of the saying is that an action is not excusable just because it is done in retaliation of the exact same (or very similar) action done by someone else -- being called names doesn't mean it's right to call them names in return, having a jetliner flown into a large building doesn't mean you can bomb one of their buildings, and so forth.I'm having trouble with the idea that harassment and death threats are somehow comparable to using street theater to demonstrate that the harassment and death threats are out of proportion to the offense.

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Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
-- M. Alan Kazlev