From: ak45ldp@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt)
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Organization: Texaco
Distribution: tx
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:12:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.193831.19745@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
|> 
|> >>I think we have gotten into the basic difference.  I am not christian
|> >>and the constitution of this country gives me that freedom.  
|> 
|> >No, you're a college-educated sociopath, a spoiled little brat who's been
|> >educated beyond her intelligence, who has no capacity for human empathy. 
|> >A typical specimen of your kind.

Wait a minute.  I missed this the first time around.  
( a spoiled little brat who's been educated beyond her intelligence)
Does that really make any sense?
How is it possible to educate someone beyond their intelligence?

While I am at it I may as well say that every atheist I ever met has loads
of human empathy, while I have met several Christians who do not even know
what emphathy means. 

Instance: On a hot day last week, several of the OR people brought their
children to the demonstration.  The poor kids were thirsty and very 
uncomfortable.  Some of the Clinic Defenders (who may or may not have
been atheists) filled containers with water and soft drinks, carried 
them across the street, and offerred them to the children.  Some parents
showed enough empathy to allow their children to drink.  Others took 
away the refreshments and threw them in the faces of those who tried to 
help.

|> Unlike you, no doubt.  I sure haven't seen any signs of 'empathy' in
|> YOUR note.
|> 
|> >And, typical of children in your age group, you have this compulsion to
|> >rebel against authority, using "religion" as a sufficiently "traditional"
|> >symbol.  Fine, go and rant and rave.  
|> 
|> Ok, would you care to characterize me, as well?  I am in favor of
|> legalized abortion, don't have much use for religion, am college
|> educated, ex-military, and have probably seen more of the world and
|> what goes on in it than you have, what with your self-righteous
|> blinders and all.  So perhaps you'd like to tell me just what it is
|> about you that's so superior?  Come on, Bob.  Play the same game with
|> me that you want to play with Lorra.  You'll find I'm not nearly as
|> easy to browbeat with your stupid "I know better because I'm more
|> experienced" abuse.

Yeah, Bob, I too would like to know what REASONONING you use to decide
that you are better than I am.  I also wonder why you equate the church
with authority.  Sorry, Bob, I agree with Thomas Jefferson.  The church
has no authority over me.

|> 
|> >>So, it really comes down to this, if you believe that you are damning a
|> >>soul to eternal nothingness, then don't have an abortion.  That is your
|> >>choice and you can practice your beliefs all you want.  My beliefs,
|> >>which are supposedly protected in this country
|> 
|> >Supposedly?  Is anyone out to get you, Lorra?  Are we feeling a bit 
|> >*paranoid*, all comfy cozy in front of our CRT?
|> 
|> Yes, people ARE out to 'get' her.  They're out to legislate away her
|> right to control her own body and try to force her to live according
|> to YOUR ideas of morality.  And that sounds like a pretty terrible
|> fate to me, too.
|> 

.. and people like us will not let you get away with it.

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Larry D. Pyeatt                 The views expressed here are not
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