(March 6, 2017 at 9:20 am)Jehanne Wrote:(March 5, 2017 at 10:45 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Okay, this is sad, and there was probably stupidity involved. But can you really chalk this up to Catholicism or christianity, or religion? It's just rural cusidness. Cities and more secular people have their own fire idiocies. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...story.html
Some people who are religious are stupid. So are some atheists I know. The difference I see is that few atheists are atheists because they are stupid or mendacious, while quite a few religious extremists are extremists because they are one the other or both.
A lot of religious conservatives were (or still are) Ron Paul supporters; they believe that they don't need any type of government assistance at all. It's not at all surprising to me to see these types of people believing that they don't need smoke alarms in their homes. What a pity!
And the connection between not wanting government assistance and not having a smoke detectors is?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
