Americans are dumb.

and again - to what purpose?

You were talking about intolerance in regards to the issue of creationism right? Well, pushing Creationism is a pet project of the religious right in this country and they are the creationists who are the LEAST tolerant of others beliefs. In addition, if you are talking about intolerance in regards to this subject and only speaking about so called intolerance of the left on the issue, then you are leaving out the other side of the coin that represents the intolerance of the religious right. Very one sided.

In addition, there is no indication of religious right intolerance here because THERE IS NOT A RELIGIOUS RIGHTY HERE ARGUING THE SUBJECT.

No, your psychic abilities aren't sharp, your propensity to bullshit is.

Paul "a bunch of nonsensical blah blah blah bloohey"

Salil "wtf"

Paul "I KNEW you wouldnt understand what I was saying! Haha! I'm psychic!"

1) Arrogance and intolerance are two different words with two different meanings. Its not my fault youre conflating them.

2) <You claimed I was -- what was it? -- arrogant and self-centered to state that a theory that claims the world is 6000 years old is false.>

What I actually said was it was arrogant to assert that ALL the people of the Abrahamic Faiths were wrong.

<In the meantime, you routinely claim that my assertions are false, when in fact there is no physical evidence to disprove them>

yes, there's a ton of evidence to disprove them - like the dictionary - and it only makes me a hypocrite if I claim that I am not arrogant, or that arrogance is eeeeeeeeevil, which I dont, so therefore you have failed to use yet ANOTHER english word correctly.

3) <I am talking particularly about that version of creationism that maintains that the world is 6,000 years old. Whole sciences of geography and paleontology, to name a few, exist in clear refutation of this idea> Wrong. God made it seem like it was a lot older. Disprove that.

you are trying to paint all lefties with the same brush by using paynie as an example.

There is no pattern. It is the Fox News tactic of finding indivuduals on the left who are intolerant and then using them to paint a whole group of people who are generally extremely tolerant. What has the left worked for? How about racial tolerance, womens rights, gay rights....the list is endless.... How can you slime a whole group of people as intolerant when it is the liberal progressives who have advanced tolerance in our country?

<<what a wonderful stereotype? doesn't really describe me or any conservative friends that come to mind but I guess it helps simplify things.>>

Arthur, while I don't know you personally, my stereotype describes every single person I've met who voted for Bush the 2nd time around (after his true nature was out in the open for all to see). Of course, some of those people hold their selfishness a bit close to the breast, but when they're faced with the horrible consequences of their support for the world's most dangerous and hated man, they typically fall back on a self-professed abject lack of concern for anything not happening under their own roof. This includes the deaths of thousands of innocent children and torture, among other things.

<<and elements in the democrat party are willing to undermine moderate and responsible voices from the black community and place al sharpton front and center at their primary.>>

I missed Al Sharpton as ever being considered a serious contender for the nomination by any dems, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by "front and center." It looked more like "back of the bus" to me.

However, during his presidential campaign, I never heard anything come out of him that sounded the least bit unreasonable, or anything to suggest that he wouldn't be an infinitely better choice for president than Chimpy McFlightsuit. Granted, I didn't hang on his every word, so if you've got an example of something truly crazy he said while running for the democratic nomination, let's see it.

<<both parties have their brown shirts and are not above throwing out a little red meat to fire up the troops.>>

As has been commented on many, many times before, the dems are far more civil and tactful in this regard, which may be why they've been losing elections of late. For every Durbin who compares behavior in Iraq to behavior in gulags (a fair comparison), you've got two or three Coulters or Robertsons who openly call for the execution of some public figure, or talk the praises of killing kids. Like this:
www.blackfive.net/main/2006...tues_.html

You wouldn't find a democrat reveling in infantcide, I can tell you that.

I didn't paint with a broad brush. I painted with a very precise one. It just happened to get paint on a whole bunch of people, who earned it.

Hold your horses Tex, give me a chance to read it.

Bad Paul....baaaaad Paul! LOL!

In reality, Paul is speaking in gereralities based on the examples of a whole group of people that are highly influential and at the core of the Conservative Movement, not just one or two Joe-Blows putting in their two cents worth. But I don't think you can paint the whole of the conservatives with that brush.

<<How many times do you guys say crap like 'The Corruption of the Right', etc?

How can I be hypocritical if I have never said it?

<<My statement 'The intolerance of the left' does NOT imply that EVERYONE on the left is intolerant at all

But it is a statement about the group in general. Your baseball analogy is piss poor.

<<As you have stated? hahahahahah, sorry Jeff, you're not qualified to make such assertions.

And who gives out these sort of qualifications Salil? Look up the definition of Liberal and Conservative and you will find that BY DEFINITION liberals are more open to change and new ideas. Conservatives are resistant to change are less open minded to things like homosexuality.

<<I DIDNT SAY THAT THE TRAIT DESCRIBES THE WHOLE GROUP

They why did you say THE Left rather than some of you on the left? THE left indicates the group.