(January 18, 2017 at 1:15 pm)Autolite Wrote:I can't disagree with any of that, however it's easier said than done. In America, at least, and it seems, the world in general, it's okay to hurt anyone's feelings for any reason EXCEPT when it comes to their religious beliefs. Sanal Edamaruku had to go into exile to hide from the backlash after telling one church that their crying statue was crying raw sewage and people should stop drinking it. That was blasphemy. The church would rather people be drinking raw sewage than have their magical beliefs disrupted by facts. And throughout the world the laws only ever protect the dominant religion in any real sense. Yeah, in America we have freedom of any religion on paper, but I've never seen any Yiddish or Arabic carved in stone at my courthouse.(January 18, 2017 at 11:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Offhand, I don't know. If it wasn't, then... what? Give up?
Well it's like I've already said, as Atheists we need to stop affording Theism any respect or credibility. We should collectively encourage the attitude that Theism is no different than any delusional belief. Instead of calling it merely a 'difference of opinion' we should all be regarding it for what it really is and that is bat-shit crazy nonsense.
Remember when we discussed the medical definition of 'delusion' and that that definition excludes religious belief? We should challenge that definition instead of accepting it. Dr Peter Boghossian of PSU is doing just this. He wants to see the medical definition for delusion in the DSM revised so that it does not exclude religious belief...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIaPXtZpzBw
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