RE: Has being gay become more socially acceptable than being an atheist?
February 28, 2014 at 1:51 pm
(February 28, 2014 at 2:26 am)TaraJo Wrote: Is it just me, or is it a little strange that being gay/trans seems to be more acceptable than being an atheist?It's possible that society can only manage one antiquated prejudice at a time. It wasn't that long ago that most people thought that gays were a danger to young children and that they roamed about looking for boys to rape. That kind of backwards thinking still exists, I'm sure, but it's nowhere near as prevalent I as remember it being.
So if there are still people who hold the illogical view that without religion they would become immoral monsters who kill and rape with reckless abandon, realize that in time that point of view will also only belong to the most backwards members of society.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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