(October 13, 2015 at 12:23 am)Losty Wrote: I personally think that telling people psychiatrists are not real doctors can and does cause harm. But meh. It's just something personal that really gets under my skin.
Generally speaking, perhaps. However it has been said that the moderates give platform to the extremists, who can use the argument from numbers as justification for their behaviour. Take away that support, tacit or otherwise, and the few percent of extreme religious nutters just become nutters.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'