RE: Ex-theists are often like ex-smokers, sanctimonious and insufferable.
July 22, 2015 at 2:32 pm
(July 21, 2015 at 3:18 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:(July 21, 2015 at 3:13 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote: I think everyone has made a good point here. I don't feel that religion should be stopped per se, but it needs to be combatted and ridiculed at every necessary opportunity, and be made known why such acts of evil were committed in the first place.
I don't do theism so I don't understand what this 'evil' is that must be combated. Are living theists possessed by the same evil spirits which animated those who ruled during the inquisition?
I think that you're aware of the evil acts committed by theists everyday, from discrimination to persecution to annihilation.
I think the reasons behind these atrocities should be made aware that they exist and why they occur. Which definitely does happen already, but I'm saying that people should speak up against it whenever they have the opportunity to do so.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
