(July 26, 2012 at 2:56 pm)frankiej Wrote: It really isn't as important as you are trying to make out, Brian. There are far more important things going on in this world than whether some sports person is an atheist or not. I'm not saying that lesser problems shouldn't be taken care of... this isn't really a problem to begin with.No it is not a stretch. More liberal theists like Cathy don't make that connection. But you are a fool to think that there are never wingnuts that even Sam Harris warns about who center their entire life around their deity belief. If one is willing to attribute a mere game to a god, what is to stop them from thinking that same god will defend them from the enemy?
I wasn't saying that "silence is golden". I was saying that it shouldn't matter if they are an atheist or not.
Quote:If someone is willing to thank Allah or Jesus for a soccer goal, is it a stretch for that same person to equate a victory over an "outsider" in war, where people really die, as being a benefit to their side?
Yes, that is a bit of a stretch, but if some deluded fellow wants to claim that then let them do so. They are allowed to think that and we are allowed to think that they are crazy. This is all quite irrelevant.
Sam Harris's "End Of Faith" and Hitchen's "God Is Not Great, how religion poisons everything" address the mistake of "allowing" an absurd claim to be made, WHICH WE SHOULD ALLOW, as being irrelevant.
No one here should object to the human right to make any claim a person may want to make, ON ANY SUBJECT. But you are out of your gord if what theists claim never has an impact on the world.
