RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 9:42 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2015 at 9:44 pm by Excited Penguin.)
Evie, your hypocrisy never ceases to impress me. You do realize that Brian just demonstrated my point and yet you disagree with my phrasing, but agree with him at the same time?
There's no question that if believers where one in a thousand we would regard them in a whole different way than we do them now. We would be genuinely concerned for their mental health. And yet that's not the case in our world, because we don't yet live in such a fully rational world that virtually everyone knows how preposterous religious beliefs are. Nor did I say we live in such a world yet. Thus my talking about a hypothetical future in which 'religious' people would be deemed insane, and with good reason. They would be so abnormal in a totally irreligious society that we would seek to understand and help them.
Religion is so intertwined with history up until this point that it's no surprise sane persons believe this stuff. I never said we should think religious people are insane right now. But in a world in which religion doesn't have the status it has now that wouldn't be the case anymore. Surely, you agree with that.
I would recommend that you read my posts more carefully in the future. I dislike being misinterpreted for lack of trying and then having to restate my positions on things for one dummy at a time(or, as it happened before, for whole groups of such dummies). It's getting on my fucking nerves already and you're not even apologizing after the fact. You never are.
You see, the thing is, I get your impression of what I say most of the time and it's so off the mark that I can't help but be genuinely offended. The fact that you and others, when I point out your errors in judgement concerning my posts, tend to double down on your own stupidity and try to make it as if you were right anyway or here's how I wasn't saying what I just said I was saying, doesn't help at all.
There's no question that if believers where one in a thousand we would regard them in a whole different way than we do them now. We would be genuinely concerned for their mental health. And yet that's not the case in our world, because we don't yet live in such a fully rational world that virtually everyone knows how preposterous religious beliefs are. Nor did I say we live in such a world yet. Thus my talking about a hypothetical future in which 'religious' people would be deemed insane, and with good reason. They would be so abnormal in a totally irreligious society that we would seek to understand and help them.
Religion is so intertwined with history up until this point that it's no surprise sane persons believe this stuff. I never said we should think religious people are insane right now. But in a world in which religion doesn't have the status it has now that wouldn't be the case anymore. Surely, you agree with that.
I would recommend that you read my posts more carefully in the future. I dislike being misinterpreted for lack of trying and then having to restate my positions on things for one dummy at a time(or, as it happened before, for whole groups of such dummies). It's getting on my fucking nerves already and you're not even apologizing after the fact. You never are.
You see, the thing is, I get your impression of what I say most of the time and it's so off the mark that I can't help but be genuinely offended. The fact that you and others, when I point out your errors in judgement concerning my posts, tend to double down on your own stupidity and try to make it as if you were right anyway or here's how I wasn't saying what I just said I was saying, doesn't help at all.
