@Data
"Specifically I'm talking about ideological fixation as a vehicle for blind adherents and the people who take advantage of the blind ignorance it must perpetuate. Divide and conquer and the atheist vs theist conflict being more a product of that than anything else."
So you see atheist v theist primarily as just another tribal/ideological conflict.
OK. I'm sure there's a degree of tribalism in some behavior of some people on those sides. But it doesn't seem particularly pronounced anymore than other divides, like sports teams or politics or nationality. If anything it seems far more about substantive issues.
But it's just a seems type of thing. It seems that way to you, it seems another way to me. I just focus on the person I'm talking to, mostly, and not see them as a representative of this or that other.
"Specifically I'm talking about ideological fixation as a vehicle for blind adherents and the people who take advantage of the blind ignorance it must perpetuate. Divide and conquer and the atheist vs theist conflict being more a product of that than anything else."
So you see atheist v theist primarily as just another tribal/ideological conflict.
OK. I'm sure there's a degree of tribalism in some behavior of some people on those sides. But it doesn't seem particularly pronounced anymore than other divides, like sports teams or politics or nationality. If anything it seems far more about substantive issues.
But it's just a seems type of thing. It seems that way to you, it seems another way to me. I just focus on the person I'm talking to, mostly, and not see them as a representative of this or that other.
