[buddha-l] it's not about belief

[curt]

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.
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>  
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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