(January 21, 2018 at 12:09 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: DA, feeling frustration and dismay that someone of a particular social class - in this case, a religion - is breeding simply because they're a member of that social class is bigotry. It's one of the classic forms of it.
What? Since when is religion a social class? If nothing you can see religious people on this forum defending bigot and his "Shithole countries" remark, so in a way DA is fighting against bigotry by wanting less Christians.
(January 21, 2018 at 12:09 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: But that's no excuse to turn yourself into a living example of the stereotypical angry atheist who must make it known that every little thing a theist does annoys them. Your teacher's having a kid and will likely raise that kid in that religion. So fucking what?
Perhaps DA just wants to talk about religious upbringing and her frustration probably comes from realization that, because of truly high number of people in her country being taught nonsense as truth, her country will probably never make a significant contribution to scientific research and have a boost in technological global economy market. Unfortuneatly it is a problem teaching kids religious nonsense, a problem that is addressed by many smart people like Bill Nye
and Lawrence Krauss
Now maybe we could help DA by giving her some good advice of how to help her country make more atheists and in that way stand on it's feet. Mayve she could start an atheist webpage in her country.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
