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- From: rstevew@deeptht.armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.censorship,alt.sex,tor.general
- Subject: Re: Surprise. You've made the evening news again.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.073651.16929@deeptht.armory.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 07:36:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul12.152040.9493@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1992Jul13.073249.28035@deeptht.armory.com> <1992Jul17.152119.14526@meadow.uucp>
- Organization: The Armory
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- In article <1992Jul17.152119.14526@meadow.uucp> marc@meadow.UUCP (Marc Riehm) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul13.073249.28035@deeptht.armory.com> rstevew@deeptht.armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
- > ^^^^^^^
- > deeptht == deep thought? :)
- >
- >[ lunatic ranting deleted]
- >
- >>In fact, I, like amnesty international and other such groups adhere to
- >>a rather strict interpretation of human rights. Any one who gets in
- >>the way of human rights, most especially the right to say ANYTHING
- >>should be taken out and shot. We finally have that here now. I cannot
- >>find a thing I can say which will get me arrested, unless I threaten
- >>someone's life or follow them around haranguing them. This is in
- >>contrast to you ridiculous excuse for a nation to the north. You can
- >>still virtually be recommended for jail time by your local vicar, like
- >>we could in the fifties! Religion based countries are vicious
- >>countries, and you will learn that by and by.
- >
- >Recently at my company we had a "personal growth" seminar, conducted by
- >someone from head office (in California). As part of the exercise, we had to
- >rank our personal values from a set of 28. As it turned out, in our group
- >10 out of 15 people ranked religion in the bottom 3 of their set of values.
- >The American who conducted the course remarked on this, and said that it was
- >typical of the Canadian groups he had given the course to. By contrast,
- >the Americans who he gave the course to were far more religious.
- >
- >Casual observation leads me to believe that Canadians are less religious than
- >Americans, and have more separation between Church and State. We tend to
- >be less demonstrative in our religion -- far less fundamentalism. How many
- >times do you hear Canadian politicians mention god? And how many times do you
- >hear their American counterparts mention god?
- >
- >[ raving deleted ]
- >
- >>It strikes me that you in Canada are a bunch of scared twits, true
- >>ninnies in the essence of the word to put up with such crap from a
- >>supposed member in good standing of the "free" world.
- >
- >Well, that was a well-informed opinion.
- >Marc Riehm Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
- > 2000 Argentia Road, Plaza 2, Suite 300
- > Mississauga, Ont. L5N 1V8
- >marc@meadow.UUCP
- -----------------------------
- Another devout Ontarian fighting for his honor. :)
- Honest, Marc. I don't hate Canadians, why some of my best friends are
- Canadians!!!!!! :->
- - R. Steven Walz
-