(May 10, 2011 at 1:03 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Many theists speak with such certainty, that they don't even allow the slightest gap for the ?. They won't acknowledge that they could be wrong. Wrong about everything they believed true. Religion has been wrong so many times before, what's to say it isn't wrong again now?Theism doesn't leave any room for uncertainty. After all, it is the belief that you have interpreted the will of a higher power correctly. Religions couldn't dictate their rules upon humanity without stating they were 100% correct.
So they attack and attack those who have the capacity to question and reject bullshit.
I just ignore them, like a kid throwing a tantrum, look down on it and just walk away. Of course if they get right up into my face then an ambulance will be needed.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell