(March 26, 2014 at 3:54 am)Esquilax Wrote: They're anti-ignorance and anti-burning to death, respectively. You're just sour because your chosen belief system uses the former regularly, and is known to have used the latter in the past to get its way. These damn secular ideals are taking your toys away!
You see, this is what truly irks me. Religious people see an attack on ignorance as an attack on their religious belief, but none of them are aware enough to understand that that should be a problem for them.
Getting butthurt from people pointing out that your shit doesn't work should be a wake up call.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell