(November 28, 2011 at 10:02 pm)belphegor Wrote: i am not someone that tells christians that they believe in fairy tales in order to demean them. everyone has a right to their beliefs, and i'm not all knowing, so i cannot judge them. in my opinion, that kind of judgmental, write-you-off-immediately mentality is just as bad as an asshole fundie's.Being judgmental isn't really bad if it is based on evidence, that's why we have a justice system, because it is okay to label people as bad when there is a sufficient amount of evidence. Without this, we wouldn't be able to arrest people for doing bad things. Similarly, if a belief is based on nothing but faith, fallacies and falsehoods, then it is reasonable to call them irrational. It is also okay to call religions fairy tales, because they have equal amounts of evidence. I don't tell people that to their face unless they provoke me, but writing somebody off due an irrational belief is completely justified.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
