(August 12, 2017 at 1:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Like with everything else, I'm sure it just depends on the theist. Doesn't make much sense to make any sort of blanket statement about a group that includes billions of people.
Except, as has been pointed out repeatedly, that 100% of them are delusional.
It really comes down to that, the delusional thinking involved in the whole thing. The delusion that they're being persecuted. The delusion that we want to 'take their faith away from them' in a way that isn't comparable to curing them of a disease. The delusion that we are, as the bible says, incapable of doing good works (in spite of blatantly obvious evidence that by and large those without such delusions are more moral folk than their religious counterparts). The delusion that the facts support their position and that we're the ones who are lying. The delusion that non-belief is a religion or requires faith so that anything said in opposition to their adherence is hypocritical since even the opposition is guilty of the same.
All of that contributes to feeling threatened, over-sensitivity to anything said in criticism (because of the blunder of having their religious identity being their primary identity and that leading to their inability to separate their beliefs from their own identities) and the perceived affront of being rebuked when trying to offer us a cup of poisoned bullshit and claiming it's something tasty and healthy.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.