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> The true Judas

23 June 2006, 06:36

Given the ignorant tone of the above message, I know it will do no good to state that this comment is one of the dumbest, if not the dumbest, I’ve ever read. I don’t read anything as an attack on any faith in this piece, simply a lucid essay seeking to analyze a subject we know so little about. But perhaps this comment proves a point. If people are so stupid that they cannot even tolerate a discussion about differing viewpoints in religion, then they are not faithful. They are simply mindless sheep needing some master to guide them through life. I’ve read many of Hoffman’s essays, and the poor guy can’t win. The right-wing calls him a "liberal" or "hard-leftist." Now he’s being called a "neo-con." Perhaps that’s the problem with trying to pigeon-hole people into a certain political spectrum. Only the ignorant, like the above commentator, fit easily into such pigeon-holes.