RE: Arguing with friend on whether we're cult-like
August 7, 2011 at 1:24 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2011 at 1:51 pm by MinusGod.)
" ...we just just parrot Richard Dawkins and need to learn to think for ourselves"
I might have to use that one. ↑
In all seriousness, when your friend says we should keep quiet it makes me think she doesn't have a good understanding of the harm religion causes in the world. Or she just doesn't care. The one thing "outspoken" atheists seem to have in common is the belief that the world would be a better place without religious influence, where people think rationally and have their morals grounded in reality and not some religious doctrine that appeals to a deity which hasn't even been demonstrated to exist.. If that's a worthy goal then it's going to take numbers of outspoken atheists to accomplish.
It might be worthwhile to get her to understand why that's a worthy goal, and why keeping quiet is just enabling something inherently immoral to go unchallenged.
**edited to add: Would she call the scientific community a cult? It seems her usage of the word "cult" as it applies to outspoken atheists is simply because of it's relevance to religion.
I might have to use that one. ↑
In all seriousness, when your friend says we should keep quiet it makes me think she doesn't have a good understanding of the harm religion causes in the world. Or she just doesn't care. The one thing "outspoken" atheists seem to have in common is the belief that the world would be a better place without religious influence, where people think rationally and have their morals grounded in reality and not some religious doctrine that appeals to a deity which hasn't even been demonstrated to exist.. If that's a worthy goal then it's going to take numbers of outspoken atheists to accomplish.
It might be worthwhile to get her to understand why that's a worthy goal, and why keeping quiet is just enabling something inherently immoral to go unchallenged.
**edited to add: Would she call the scientific community a cult? It seems her usage of the word "cult" as it applies to outspoken atheists is simply because of it's relevance to religion.
