RE: Ex-theists are often like ex-smokers, sanctimonious and insufferable.
July 21, 2015 at 11:21 pm
(July 21, 2015 at 1:51 pm)Dystopia Wrote: People have need for dogmas and principles to guide their life and they end up replacing religion with something else that suits them, whether it's Richard Dawkins,a political ideology, a list of moral ideas or some philosophy you approve of.
It certainly can happen that way. If that does result, the best outcome is when the dogma decided upon is tolerance; and yes, even that has deep flaws.
My principle, which I garnered from my dad, is that I walk, talk, smoke, and joke -- meaning, I keep to myself and don't poke at anyone else, until they poke at me ... and at that point, I pay them back in the currency they prefer.
