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Old 04-24-2007, 05:34 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by creekster View Post
Mullahs = those with whom you disagree or who criticze you but with whom you share a religious belief.

Intellectual = 1. When used publicly, those who seem smart or those whose posts you don't understand; 2. when used privately, yourself and those that agree with you; 3. when used by Rocky, those without fully functional reproductive capabilities.
I guess I better stop calling people Mullahs if that's it.

I would define Mullahs differently. They are those who take an unrealistically literal and absolutist view of religious canon and dogma and pronouncements by religious leaders. They usually feel discomfort placing religion in historical context, providing historical or empirical explanations for religion, or engaging in Biblical or B of M or B of A or D&C exegesis. Typically they see such activities as worse than a fool's errand; they see such activities as flirting with damnation, indeed, the adversay himself.
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