(October 30, 2015 at 11:27 pm)Evie Wrote:(October 30, 2015 at 10:59 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: jenny has drained a little of my precious reserves of faith in humanity.
Don't worry there's more to humanity than her ignorance of scientific matters or any matter of education. She can still be a nice person that's the main thing.
I could never lose faith in someone for their ignorance, I know far too many ignorant people who are still lovely human beings.
I'm pretty ignorant too of most things... mainly because I'm lazy... although I try not to be.
I understand natural selection and the basics... I understand enough to know evolution makes massive sense. I was taught the basics as a child and Dawkins taught me most of the other parts pretty much
Main thing is she's not forcing her beliefs on others and her theistic beliefs seem pretty harmless.
To be clear---I will never fault someone for being ignorant. There are many topics I am ignorant about.
One thing you'll never catch me doing, however, is proudly remaining willfully ignorant.
For that, a person can earn my deepest disdain.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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