Well, look at the quantity of posts on this message board about drugs, sex, political propaganda and music.
Go to any college campus. You will see exactly the same thing.
I suppose I can't really convince someone who wants to believe that there is some huge gulf between intentionally promoting drugs, sex, political propaganda and music to promote atheism and someone who thinks that "people are just tolerate of that sort of thing, and it helps atheism, but there is no connection".
I think what you are doing, that is some real grown up thinking huh, separating the two. That is tin foil hat thinking to suggest that were people make massive gains because of certain policies, there is no connection between the gain and the policy. Total lunacy. A real grown up approach would be to just trust that people are doing the best they can, and that is all.
Of course you apply the same standards when you talk about corporate misconduct. There is no connection between gain and policy. None at all. Ken Lay was a victim of Enron, right? He just didn't know what was going on. Those atheists at Harvard, they are way too dumb to realize that their movement gets all its momentum from the bars and the bedrooms. There is no way they have put the two together, naw, that is tin foil hat thinking. But Ken Lay...
Go to any college campus. You will see exactly the same thing.
I suppose I can't really convince someone who wants to believe that there is some huge gulf between intentionally promoting drugs, sex, political propaganda and music to promote atheism and someone who thinks that "people are just tolerate of that sort of thing, and it helps atheism, but there is no connection".
I think what you are doing, that is some real grown up thinking huh, separating the two. That is tin foil hat thinking to suggest that were people make massive gains because of certain policies, there is no connection between the gain and the policy. Total lunacy. A real grown up approach would be to just trust that people are doing the best they can, and that is all.
Of course you apply the same standards when you talk about corporate misconduct. There is no connection between gain and policy. None at all. Ken Lay was a victim of Enron, right? He just didn't know what was going on. Those atheists at Harvard, they are way too dumb to realize that their movement gets all its momentum from the bars and the bedrooms. There is no way they have put the two together, naw, that is tin foil hat thinking. But Ken Lay...
