(April 21, 2013 at 11:29 am)Tonus Wrote: I think that the alternative to reasoned, rational, logical thought is mostly emotional thought.
(April 20, 2013 at 11:54 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: I'm going to give you the very basic reason why I am so aggressive:
Because I hate religion, I hate intellectual dishonesty, and I hate people who pick and choose things in their various religious texts.
So the emotion of hate and intellectual dishonesty (revealed by its containing conclusions which differ from my own) thoroughly justify aggression. What would it take to justify tolerance of a differing opinion in matters where conclusive evidence is lacking?
Atheism is no insurance against faulty logic. In fact reasoning which starts with atheism as axiomatic suffers from the same narrowness as fundamentalist theism.