RE: Looking for comments / ideas for WIP project ABCs of Atheism
November 22, 2016 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2016 at 12:12 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(November 22, 2016 at 11:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 22, 2016 at 11:35 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I don't see why you would. The two paragraphs you mention from A seem to be stating things of a factual nature. If facts disturb you . . . I don't know what to tell you, then.
It's not that facts disturb me. It's the impression it might give to a kid, as I said in my first post.
It would be the equivalent of me writing "Allie the Alligator has friends who don't pray and don't care to build a relationship with God because they do not have faith. But Allie does!"
I personally would not do that, so there's no reason why I should have a double standard.
Except I don't see anything about caring in the lines submitted by the author at hand. You are imagining negative undertones where there aren't any. To point out differences between people is perfectly OK, CL, kids shouldn't be protected from facts by themselves. Bias I disagree with as much as you do, as I do with anything resembling a hateful predisposition towards other groups of people. But let's be fair and look at this closely. Is there anything of the sort to be found here ? I don't think so.
At the end of the day people do pray, for example, and it's something that hasn't been demonstrated to work, so it's a waste of time, objectively speaking. Pointing that out or even alluding to it does no harm to anyone. Which isn't even what happened here.
Rather, it went, her friends like to pray to gods whereas she prefers to find wonderment and comfort in the beauty of proven, objective reality. How is that bad?
