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   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant bladerunnerisawesome@gmail.com covertly transmitting a   
   message to renegade friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
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   >> Well Bush is just itching to drop bombs on Europe to eliminate any   
   >> extremists there...   
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   >> And then your daughter comes home from school telling how fellow fifth   
   >> graders are preaching against seeing the film The Golden Compass or   
   >> reading the books - not from their own experience, but simply because   
   >> they are spouting religious doctrine they've been told.  "blinders" -   
   >> nobody comes anywhere close to the religious.   
   >   
   >In fairness, your fifth grader probably does her best to repeat,   
   >verbatim, whatever beliefs you bestow upon her as well. Don't be so   
   >hard on the kids.   
      
   "In fairness", my particular fifth grader has a very strong view of   
   what she thinks and really, absolutely does not repeat what *I* say   
   given she goes to a Catholic school and is determinedly indoctrinated   
   by many all of the time.  I don't need to be hard on her when she is   
   standing up for what *she* thinks against absolutely everyone else's   
   views!  In the above paragraph, I am speaking absolutely literally.   
   "Who is with me in not allowing this book on the reading list for the   
   school" is a direct quote from the religious zealot who doesn't even   
   know what they are, let alone the crap they are repeating.  My   
   daughter really doesn't want to believe my view that there is no God,   
   but she is struggling against those who rant against a movie she went   
   to see and could see nothing wrong with.   
      
   >As for the adults... well, I read reviews and sometimes run with them.   
   >Someone says, more or less, "it's a story about killing God," I'll   
   >avoid it. I'm not going to sign petitions or join Facebook groups   
   >damning all who view or even, *gasp*, enjoy the stories to hell, but   
   >it's not necessarily blind to pick and choose how I spend my time   
   >partially based on the opinions of others.   
      
   Daniel Craig said, "This story is against the MISUSE of religion."   
   And if you'd read the books yourself, you'd know it is about the   
   killing of a FALSE God, not whatever being might really have created   
   the Universe.   
      
   >And a certain blindness is exemplified in your first comment. Sure,   
   >you'll get some laughs and metaphorical pats-on-the-back because Bush   
   >hatred is oh-so-chic, but anyone who would seriously consider Bush   
   >capable of such action has a certain symmetry to Mike Huckabee on his   
   >most fire-and-brimstone Sunday morning.   
      
   My comments about Bush are by no means following any fashion - I've   
   been saying them for so long that if anything, I was a small part in   
   creating that fashion (though a fashion with a foundation).  And   
   you've been here long enough to know that - your silly comments should   
   be saved for someone more naive.  I am sorry you don't get the (2008)   
   direct connection with what I said - perhaps you are lagging behind in   
   keeping up-to-date in the extraordinarily stupid things Bush says.   
      
   Netrunner   
      
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