# Catholic "Obamacon" denied communion

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 3, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-obamacon-denied-communion/451620 "2008-06-03T13:37:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-obamacon-denied-communion/451620/81 "2008-06-05T15:55:51Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
No, it is not. Nor is all bigotry hate.  
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I disagree. When one chooses to believe the worst of a group of other people in order to assuage one’s own ego, justify cruelties or opression or exploitation, or take wicked selfish pride, that is definitely hatred. I see you repeatedly building yourself into a frothing rage over the slightest pretext. You use false arguments and pretenses to justify your hate.

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**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-obamacon-denied-communion/451620/82 "2008-06-05T19:35:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Mighty\_Girl]

Now, that’s just crazy talk, woman!  
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I know. I should be so ashamed. ☹

🆒

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-obamacon-denied-communion/451620/83 "2008-06-05T21:17:57Z")

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[QUOTE=smiling bandit]  
I disagree. When one chooses to believe the worst of a group of other people in order to assuage one’s own ego, justify cruelties or opression or exploitation, or take wicked selfish pride, that is definitely hatred. I see you repeatedly building yourself into a frothing rage over the slightest pretext. You use false arguments and pretenses to justify your hate.  
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“Bigotry,” in the original sense of the word, simply means stubborn narrowmindedness. As in this classic from Ambrose Bierce’ _The Devil’s Dictionary:_

> [@](#):
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> ABSTAINER, n.  
> A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
> 
> ```
> Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought
> You a total abstainer, my son."
> "So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught --
> "But not, sir, a bigoted one."
> 
> ```

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