(April 15, 2014 at 1:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I hate the PC left, all be they well intended in wanting to get along, who would respond to your cussing and blasphemy and call it "hate". I have gotten to the point of not trying to avoid the word "hate". I think skeptics and blasphemers SHOULD NOT avoid that word because we would be lying to them and ourselves if we said it was ok to believe it.
I would say we should not let them take the word "hate" out of context which they do to throw up a wall to avoid having their claims bruised.
I do "hate" absurd claims that have no evidence. I do "hate" the expectation that claims never deserve to be questioned or blasphemed. I am tired of allowing, either by the liberal theist or PC atheist, define for me what the word "hate" means.
I do hate absurd claims just as if I had a friend who claimed the Yankees won the Superbowl. How should someone expect me to respond to that? It is not true, and far too much of the time with theists is you can't leave it with "it's not true" and even that will offend them. Why should I coddle the idea of an invisible sky parent when our species history shows lots of deity claims we now know were not real, and the ones our species still believe today have never been able to get evidence from a lab, or through a patient or created a universal theory that is undisputed.
I am not sorry that I hate bullshit. I am also not sorry that I hate that this very bullshit infects worldwide politics and throughout history has retarded human discovery and attacked scientific method whenever it conflicts with human concocted fairy tales.
YES I HATE, so don't ask me to be sorry about valuing facts and demanding evidence. This is not about human rights at all so to my well intended friends, don't pull that crap because it doesn't help humanity at all.
What I hate is the "let other people believe what they want to" pile of shit.
The fact of the matter is that I do let people believe what they want to. Your beliefs are inside your skull -- I have no access to them, I have no control over them, I have no choice but to let other people believe what they want to. What these assholes are really saying is that they don't want their beliefs challenged. Fuck that. If something that you believe is stupid -- and I point out that it's stupid -- that does not take away your right to believe it. I have the right to challenge the beliefs.
Blasphemy is beautiful. In the USA we have no blasphemy laws. We have the right to commit blasphemy and we ought to. Loud and proud.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- don't pollute it with bullshit.
