Subject: You owe an apology
From: “Geoff Arnold”
To: andrew@andrewsullivan.com
Date: Thu, February 1, 2007 11:27 am
To respond to someone who says this:
> I, personally, as an atheist, find meaning in my own possibility
> and will to act in this world. I have the opportunity to interact
> with others and to create things. I have the chance to leave this
> world a bit better than when I came into it… for my children and
> for the rest of humanity. I don’t do this because a particular
> flying spaghetti monster ordained that I do it and will punish me
> with his noodly appendage if I don’t. I do it because I have the
> power and I believe that it is better for me if I help those around
> me. What else would give my life more meaning than that?
with this
> But why is that more meaningful than flying a plane into the World
> Trade Center?
is something I would have expected from Pat Robertson or Bill
O’Reilly, or a Christianist but not from you. If you really can’t see
why, you’re a fool. If it was just a thoughtless rhetorical flourish,
you should be ashamed of yourself.