Guest, your posts are patronising, shallow and mealy-mouthed. In lordly manner, you proclaim, "I do not use Western modes of logic and reasoning in my analytical and critical thinking." Why come and post here, then? These discussions are for those who can argue, and arguing involves use of logic and reasoning. No adjective is necessary to qualify "logic and reasoning", an argument is either logical or it is not. Nonsense is not suddenly sound argument because it doesn't follow "Western modes of logic". And I suspect there can be no "analytical and critical thinking" without logic -- but no doubt you will correct me if I'm wrong.

And you're nit-picking. In your post of 08 Mar 04, 01:08 PM (a reply to mine of 08 Mar 04, 10:17 AM) you don't answer my point (but then that would require "Western modes of logic", wouldn't it, so I don't know why I expect it, really), but carp that I'm responding to an agenda of my own, not to what you wrote. But I don't think that is the case. You don't mean to tell me that this diatribe of yours is disinterested? What you meant, and what I replied to, was, "One thing that bothers me a lot are the daily, real life repurcussions for secularists, atheists, and agnostics particularly[, myself included], of living in this age of religious tyranny".

And anyway, you do the same thing yourself (08 Mar 04, 01:08 PM), accusing me of implying that you personally are a victim of religious persecution or tyranny, when I only asked a question.

Of course I implied that, just as you implied what I inferred above. The difference is that I'm prepared to stand by what I write, while you appear to be able only to use persiflage to cover the tripe you write.