Quote:I hate the rape of the English language, I hate being called names, I hate being insulted and degraded; but I cannot change how others choose to have speaks with people, they have a right to let things roll off of their tongues in any manner that they wish.
Thus, if one holds the right to mangle their words in speech, then they hold the right to believe in anything that they wish to mangle in their beliefs.
I am not above making mistakes myself. I am so used to seeing theists argue about death being a numbers game his second sentence threw me off. I am glad even when theists agree that religion divides too much to the point of bloodshed. Having said that, the defense of religion by the believers part comes from somewhere. And just like a dictator, the Gods of Abraham you cannot remove from their position, thus those concepts are in line with that of a dictator. What allowed Stalin and Hitler merely was the same attitude of obedience to authority and worship of the state. God belief requires the same.