[buddha-l] it's not about belief

[Stanley J. Ziobro II]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, curt wrote:

> Richard P. Hayes wrote:
>
> >
> >You seem to have got stuck
> >in an adolescent neo-Romantic (almost neo-Nazi) fantasy about noble
> >savages, honorable pagans, and wise Asians, all having their utopias
> >disrupted by nasty Christians.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Richard seems to think that as long as he doesn't say "You are a Nazi,
> sir", that he can throw around "Nazi-lite" accusations and it doesn't
> count as scurrilous and vicious. Let me suggest that if Richard is to be
> taken at his word, then he is saying that its really not so bad to have
> "almost neo-Nazi" fantasies, since saying that about someone (me)
> shouldn't cause any hard feelings. Well, that tells us a great deal
> about Richard Hayes, then, doesn't it? As for me, any comparison
> whatsoever to a Nazi is either meant to be taken as an extreme insult -
> or it must come from someone who is a moral cripple who is incapable of
> understanding the seriousness of such language.

Curt,

I judge that Richard did a capital job of sizing up your position.  Your
words here corroborate them.  If divinity is so obvious to you, then why
do you fail to see it when it is before you?

Stan Ziobro