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Revisiting Stan
Curiousity may have killed the cat, but it also tempted a couple hundred of you to click over this weekend to Central Sanity to read more about Stan, his possible bid for President, and his views on the world. With a few days separation from that post, and certain unsolicited reminders about the requirements of my Christian faith, I started to experience regrets about the way I had treated Stan. If you don’t care, read on to the far more profound insights and much more meaningful topics of my co-bloggers here at TMV. But if you do care, or if that damn cat-killing curiosity is just too much to resist, here’s Stan, Take 2.
4 Responses to “Revisiting Stan”
My interest was sound asleep until this second, aplologetic post.
Now my interest is wide awake, but squirming. The second take is certainly noble. But a little devil sitting on my shoulder thinks that sometimes we can exercise the freedom to refuse to take seriously what we find ridiculous and to just go ahead and laugh.
It’s a quandary.
Do we really need to treat every opinion with equal respect? Doesn’t that imply foregoing our own good judment?
I see why it’s important to avoid insulting. and demeaning. Sometimes, though, it’s impossible to express judgement wihout someone or other feeling insulted. And is it even worth it?
When it comes to people of faith, why are they due special treatment just because they read the Bible?
It’s no different than bestowing special privileges on members of a political party or members of a certain race.
I have only questions.
I have no definitive answers.
domajot,
I regret I have nothing more to add than a heartfelt, “Ditto.”
You hit this conundrum of a nail squarely on the head.
Pete, I had no idea that you weren’t Jewish!
Holly,
No, I’m not Jewish. A lot of people have thought I was, though. You’re not the first. I do have great respect for Jews and Jewish traditions.