Gnostic Bishop wrote: Harry Marks wrote:But I don't expect everyone to consider it legitimate or healthy to try to separate out the bad stuff and keep the good stuff.
If one does not, then one can never decide if the ideology is good or evil.
It's not the clearest, but since I do this myself I didn't have too much trouble deciphering. A comment whose reference is otherwise unclear is probably commenting on the last sentence of the quoted material.
If people are going to insist that thought systems have to be accepted or rejected in one piece, not sorted through for gems, then they are going to find that lots of people reject their system. And often, the more those people think for themselves, the more likely that they judge the system faulty. If I were of a mind to argue people need to keep the original system intact, I would give thought to who I am fencing in and who I am fencing out.