(November 16, 2016 at 1:25 pm)8BitAtheist Wrote: I only care about their beliefs when they use them as justifications to negatively impact the rights of others.
Same here, BUT, just when I feel safe from legislation being inundated with conservative Christian horse-shit, suddenly they're back in charge.
And so while my strong preference is to be left alone and let everyone believe whatever they want, I have to think that the rise of Trump can be traced to the same magical thinking required to believe in a god. Both require a remarkable and willful ignorance of facts, the ability to believe in what they wish were true, and the ability to discard a truth because it doesn't accord with what they want to believe.
And that's fine as long as it doesn't diminish the rights of others. But it's about to do just that. And what is the solution but to try and educate when the opportunity arises? It's not that atheism is some sort of cure-all for the problems of democracy, but man, differences of opinion over facts can be dealt with as long as both parties know what the facts are. When one side is coming from pure fiction and is only eager to add more fiction to support the already existing non-reality, what the hell do you do?
