(October 30, 2012 at 11:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Just a future reminder, anytime I respond to these comments it is not for your benefit it is for the benefit of the theist who might read this and missunderstand what you say.
Thank you for clarifying my clarification, or rather expansion, since like you I wasn't strictly addressing your post so much as developing upon it. Still, every little helps
. Watch as I do it again:(October 30, 2012 at 11:53 pm)Polaris Wrote: The problem with the type of atheists (they are few in number yet are quite vociferous) you most likely have a problem with is that they think that they are somehow intelligent for not believing in religion and don't need to adhere to any academic standards whatsoever.
Speaking only for myself, of course, I concur with others who consider me intelligent, not because I don't believe in religion (is religion something one can believe in anyway?) but because what I am in the habit of calling my intellect is not shackled by religious ideology; my capacity for learning and self-correction is not hamstrung at the starting gate by the desperate need to conform to dodgy dogma.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
