(January 12, 2016 at 5:08 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:(November 28, 2015 at 7:32 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I could love them if they were not bastardizing science and spreading that virus of stupidity. I could live with a theist who accepts all science and can leave their religion at the door. But even given that, like Stenger, and I agree with him, the debate becomes about treating religion "separate but equal". I don't agree with that, but that is a debate I can live with. I cannot and will not accept a continued attack on facts. Evolution is fact, to not defend it would be like saying it is ok to teach 1+1=Pixies.
I wish these nuts didn't have an affect on public education but they do. I wish they could leave their religion in Sunday school, but they don't.
The right-wing idjits are the reason that Donald Trump just might actually get the Republican nomination. That's still way too much political power for my liking. And yes, they can have an effect upon all sorts of legislation here in the good ol' US of A. I'm sitting, right now, in a state that voted in 2005 that Intelligent Design be included in all science classes throughout the state. It was repealed in 2007, but the fact that the creatards got a whole state to teach ID for two years is more than a little frightening.
I, like Brian, don't know what I can do to fight against this culture of ignorance. But there has to be something. Some way to speak out. I know some moderate xtians who agree with me, and that's heartening (folks like Kingpin and CL). And probably, we will see fundamentalist evangelicalism diminish. But at this point, they're a powerful and very angry group.
You are doing something about it right now. Don't think small voices don't add up. Now if you want to do more, you don't have to create a website like this or write a book like Dawkins, but what you do does help.
If you compare where the atheist voice was in 01 to what it has become today, it is huge compared to back then. If all you can do is post on social media, both our side and debate their side on their pages, it does help. The more of us who do it, the less religion has a place to hide.
