Seemingly Futile Attempts
To Check Nationalism
Ron Harris
From: "Ron Harris"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: Re: A Beacon for Survivors (Heroic Stories)
Date: September 12, 2001 3:02 PM
Cliff,
As an appreciative reader of your website, and a subscriber to our philosophy, I wish you well. I spent most of last evening trying to convince my fiancé that nationalism and religion are the things that cause such events to happen, but after some self-searching, I am feeling very nationalistic at this time. It is not good to wish bad things to happen to anyone, but the person or persons responsible for this act need to pay.
I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to be an atheist as well. If there's anything I can do for you, let me know.
Ron Harris
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To: "Ron Harris"
Subject: Re: A Beacon for Survivors (Heroic Stories)
Date: September 12, 2001 8:12 PM
I am a proud American and a proud atheist. I address my tendencies toward nationalism by pretending that I'm viewing a given situation from the perspective of, say, a Dutch man or a Norwegian -- or even an African or an Arab whose country has been exploited by American interests or America herself.
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
Six years of service to
people with no reason to believe
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