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Originally Posted by T@T
Actually leave it to Textcritic to spew his BS to have people believe what he and his type writes is actually important, sorry pal but if it walks like a duck ..it's probably a duck.
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Personally, I found textcritic's post (and have found others of his posts) completely fair, intellectually honest and also very enlightening. He has obviously spent more time thinking about this stuff than I have and is therefore an excellent resource on this topic, and is also ostensibly aware of his own biases to the extent they exist.
Again, saying any literary criticism is "important" may be pushing it a bit when thought about in a broader perspective, but it's culturally important and in this case historically important, and in the case of Islam particularly right now, politically extremely important. The point is still that all it needs to be is interesting (and it is) but I also disagree with both you and him in that I do think you are minimizing the importance of this topic at the moment.
This is one of those instances where you're substantively on the right side of an argument (in the sense that it's hard to lose an argument as a secularist against religion), but manage to lose anyway.