(July 13, 2011 at 3:12 pm)Epimethean Wrote: It helps when everything you believe depends on a 2-3000 year old tome that was written in languages you cannot read. "Interpretation" is everything to a make-believer.
I think this hammers home the point beautifully, believing this excludes you from rational debate from the word go.
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.
- John Lennon