>>>The singling out of organized religion happened in this thread simply because this thread drifted into a discussion on religion. Religion is not being singled out per se, it just happened to be the topic being discussed. And these religions have a lot to answer for.
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>OK. So if somebody read this thread and noticed that you come from South Africa, and if they launched into an impassioned denunciation of white South Africans who may have frowned on Apartheid but were only too happy to enjoy the benefits of it, you'd regard that as thread drift? I'd call it thread hijacking and I'd challenge the motives of the people doing it.I see no difference between that and the conversion of a discussion about Bush into claims that the churches have a lot to answer for because they screwed scientists or tortured people or whatever is the populist slogan of the moment.

Well if you think the thread was hijacked on purpose in order to beat up on religion then that is an entirely different issue. I do not agree that it was so but niether am I interested in debating that point.


>>>I challenge you to show me where I said that you said that. It is simply a conclusion I make from the comments in my post.
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>I see. The "Do me a favor" on the end of a post addressed to me seemed to imply you were exasperated at some point of mine, not that you were talking to yourself ;-)

It was an expression of exasperation and I have explained why in that post. It was a conclusion in the format of IF x THEN y - ie. it starts with an "IF". Again, this does not relate to the topic of discussion but rather about how we debated the debate. I am not interested to debate how we debated ;)