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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 976257" data-attributes="member: 3109">To paraphrase Thomas Paine, a portion of whose theories this gent is trying to hijack in order to promote intolerance of race, religion and education, anyone who uses others' unbelief as proof of their own dogma is a crack-smokin' hobo!Which is to say, anybody who says, "I am wise, and all are fools, but who believe my words," is the biggest fool of all.Which is not to say that I disagree with what might have been the essential premise, which is that a those who most vigorously promote any stricture of belief that is used to oppress their followers work a terrible disservice to humanity, except he contradicts his indictment by doing just that.  Any system of belief that is good and elevates some part of mankind to a higher level of harmonious existence, and as such will find adherents on its own merits.  Any belief that requires the denial of all other beliefs must be false, for there is no belief system that does not overlap with or build on others.  No one has a monopoly on truth.I believe this man is proselytizing an idea that is not unique to "Cubism," but which has its roots in early Confucianism, which is that all things exist in different, yet simultaneous states.  The mother is newborn to motherhood as the infant is newborn to life.  The old man dying is no different from the young man entering manhood, for both are leaving behind their previous existence for another.This is not a new idea, and hidden in all of the intolerance-laced rhetoric, are but truisms that provide the reader with no substance for an improved existence.  Rather it promotes disharmony, using undisputable, yet wholly unrelated truisms as its defense for spreading the most vile forms of hatred known to man.  To continue, in each day and each year are undeniable phases, from which can be derived repetitious sequences, each of which can be truly called a day, or a year.  The solstices and equinoxes are the points from which we draw reference, and so we regard midday and midnight, sunup and sundown; and we measure by the shortest and longest days, and by those which are equal.  And acts which destroy the earth are despicable, and those that profit from such all the worse.  It could come straight from Wicca, if not for the fact that the bulk of the text is expended in vilification of all non-promoters of the text, rather than promoting the harmony that observing these patterns can help one achieve.Same dogmatists toolkit that can be found in any institution that favors its structure and dogma over the improvement of the earth.  It promotes the text over the contents of the text, and it commingles truth with poison.  Any idea which is good will find its way into good hearts, and will be ignored by the rest.  What is truly destestible about this text is that it takes noble and true ideas that have been foundations for peace for thousands of years, and twists them into a shield in defense of hatred, ignorance, and anarchy.  Anyone who insists that the whole of their word is truth just because some part of it is good or true is trying to sell you a punch in the face with your nose job.  But now I have made of myself an evil teacher, for although I do not disagree with parts of the text, I disagree with the whole of it, and I will not promote it or the hatred which it teaches.  There are lots of words which destroy children's spirits.  And as all are children of some phase of life, all are vulnerable to such words.  And all but a small part of this text are such words.There is no evil belief except that which teaches one to hate another.</blockquote>

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