Padriac Wrote:My position: The belief,feelings and motivations of others is none of my business nor are mine any of theirs.We judge others and are judged by behaviour.
That sounds like a good philosophy of life, and a great way to go through life not caring what other people think. But I like to evaluate new ideas by carrying them to extremes. In this case, if I am voting for President and a candidate says he believes in witches and faeries and anal probing space aliens, well I just have to view that as very much my business. It is about rationality and our assessments of liklihoods that others will behave in a sane and rational manner in the future, regardless of past behavior exhibited by a person before they were given authority, control, responsibility, etc. And, given that religious people are HIGHLY irrational and know that they are irrational on some level, it does not surprise me that their collective cognitive dissonance manifests itself in little petty quibbles that seek to challenge all competing "beliefs" and to discredit science and rational thought and ultimately devolve into arguments about what words mean. I see it over and over again.
