From: Michael McKenny <bn872@FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
Subject: Re: UHJ Fundamentalist Fantasy (Reply to Susan and all)
Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 2:41 PM
Greetings, Hooper.
You are addressed as we don't forget your great interest in cyberspace,
as your vacation message indicated, and as these are your words quoted below.
You are speaking in Orwellian. Freedom of thought means freedom of
expression. To say that one may think what one likes, so long as one keeps
one's mouth shut, by defining speech as action, and going after those who
dare to utter their thoughts aloud, the UHJ is violating essential Baha'i
principle of freedom of speech and expression.
It ought to be noted again that the Orwellian phrase "Actions
inimical to the basic principles" means saying out loud that the basic
principles of freedom of thought and expression, the equality of women and
men, the harmony of science and religion, the independent investigation of
truth, the harmony of humanity ought to be practised rather than merely
mouthed in the Baha'i Faith.
It could be asserted on the basis of experience that "The vital
interests of the Faith" may better be rendered "The preservation of the
hold fundamentalist males, including Hooper, have on this religion, the
continuation of their memberships for life, whatever harm they do to the
spiritual influence released by Baha'u'llah."
To a Better Future,
Michael
>
> "the institutions do not busy themselves with what individual believers think
> unless those thoughts become expressed in actions which are inimical to the
> basic principles and vital interests of the Faith."
>
--
"My name's McKenny, Mike McKenny, Warrant Officer, Solar Guard."
(Tom Corbett #1 STAND BY FOR MARS p2)
Homepage
|