(August 1, 2019 at 2:32 pm)Brian37 Wrote: A long time ago online a fellow liberal upon reading my criticism of religion posted, "Don't take away people's hope". I wasn't an experienced debater back then, and I did back off at first. But since, I had read the posts of countless others, and many skeptic authors as well. I wasn't trying to take away anyone's hope. If you have a telescope and someone insists a Kaleidoscope is the truth, how are you helping them by letting them think that? Galileo wasn't trying to shit on anyone by saying the earth revolved around the sun, and not the sun revolving around the earth. But for his truth telling he was punished. The only "hope" mythology offers is a temporary placebo. Real hope is facing reality.
I do not confront religion because I hate my fellow humans. I confront bad claims.
I think that there's a boundary here that each one of us have to decide if we want to cross it or not. If someone is minding their own business, living their life, possibly in their own home just to take an example to the extreme... I'm not going to burst in the door and yell, "Nothing happens when you die so your Aunt Gertrude is gone forever and you'll never see her again! God is dead!"
lol
But if you actively partake in a debate and then try to back people off with "don't try to take away my hope" - that's insanely disingenuous.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
