(May 23, 2017 at 4:08 pm)Valyza1 Wrote:(May 23, 2017 at 3:42 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: The point being, they don't understand it either, and you can read my "palpably uncomfortable" as "embarrassed". See, even THEY know they are schilling BS.
Even if that's true for all Mormons, that they don't understand their own beliefs (and there's no way to know that), I fail to see how mockery helps. Children don't understand what they're doing when they pretend to do grown up tasks. Is ridicule really going to help them grow up? It serves no purpose but to gratify the person doing the ridiculing, and it's a cheap gratification to boot. You can't expect anyone in the wrong to learn something when they are on the defensive.
When bullshit is presented as fact, and the believers have stopped thinking and are just swallowing the crap whole, ridicule is one of the few ways to get their attention.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
