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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 08/09/2008 : 11:52:12 [Permalink]
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I agree with the poster who suggested that all approaches are valid. I think it's situational. PZ was justified based on the lunacy of some Catholics who probably remain clueless. But it did serve to cause a few sane Catholics to notice the bad behavior of some of their fellow church members. (Personally, I wouldn't have done it. But in retrospect I have some reason to soften my initial stand.)
That said, I am disgusted with Nisbet. While I sympathies with the approach that he favors, his one size fits all version of how best to present ourselves is just silly. And his attacks are as counter productive as anything he accuses Myers of.
If he had said "I don't agree with what Myers is doing, but I understand why he is doing it" and left it at that, fine. That's pretty much what I did. But to now go on and continue his attack on Myers will only serve to divide the atheist community. He want's us to choose a side and fight it out with each other. Screw that.
My guess is that I am not that far away from Nisbet's thinking on how best to approach the problem, at least for me. But I am not willing to turn that into some kind of dogma. And that is where we part ways. As always, I am suspicious of those who think they own the truth...
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