I do violence by suggesting you don't have the right to tell others what their metaphysics should be?

That's a twist.

I suggest f there is any violence done, it is the intellectual violence of, among others:

1. Forcing an innocent person to belief in his innate guilt.
2. Forcing someone to look for "forgiveness" for guilt which was place don him only by the acts of others, and requiring he turn to a source which he has not personally experienced and may very well not experience and has no reason to consider as the appropriate authority except because he is tyold so by others.
3. Requiring children to try to communicate to, and pretend to communicate to, an entity whose location they cannot know and from whom they receive no answers.
4. Insisting to all those outside the circle of your faith that you are in touch with the Source of the Whole Universe and they are not, unless they come over and line up with your fellow adherents, submit to the interpretative powers of wrinkled old men with dubious sexual habits, and walk and talk their way through bizarre rituals of no inherent merit.

This is just a list of a few items off the top of my head, and I would offer that they constitute intellectual violence next to which my rastiness is a walk in the park.





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