RE: My argument for atheism +
December 10, 2019 at 7:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2019 at 7:04 pm by EgoDeath.)
(December 10, 2019 at 6:18 pm)Belacqua Wrote: When Donald Trump says that Muslims are terrorists and Mexicans are rapists, it's your fault for not assuming that he doesn't mean all of them.
Okay, wow. What an insanely disingenuous way to represent the situation. Let's take a look. Trump said:
Quote:When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
While, toward the end there, as an afterthought, Trump lazily tried to reassure everyone that he didn't mean "all Mexicans," he still seems to believe that most people emigrating to this country from South America (remember he said, "it's not just Mexico"), are criminals and rapists. He is literally saying most of them are criminals; a statement that's simply wrong. It also speaks to an alarmingly racist attitude that he seems to hold, based solely on the fact that these people are different from him, I assume, because he's white and they are not.
So, Trump made a blanket generalization about an entire group of people based on a few bad apples.
How's that different you ask?
Well, because here in the US, an alarmingly large number of Christians do take the Bible very literally, and deny evolution, and deny science, and fail to read their own Bible, and so on and so forth. We have the statistics on this. Not to mention, this has nothing to do with condemning people for the color of their skin; bad ideas are bad ideas. And if you're a Christian who holds bad ideas, it's because you're not thinking through these issues properly and it has nothing to do with what ethnicity you are.
So, yes Bel, that is vastly different than someone here talking about Christians who believe in intelligent design, and I think you know that. I honestly can't tell if you're just being an asshole here or if it's honestly just natural to you to be that disingenuous. Wow.
I honestly feel like you're not even thinking before you type these things out.
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.