RE: Atheism Kills Off the Ambition of the Lower Classes and Makes them Anti-Social
July 9, 2014 at 6:01 am
(July 8, 2014 at 8:11 am)Holden Caulfield Wrote: People like Blackrook need to be prevented from speaking ever.I think that one reason that religion is waning around the world is that they are no longer able to effectively silence those who speak against it or reveal its deficiencies. Censoring religion isn't the answer. On the contrary, I think we will move past religion more quickly if we allow religious people to continue to express their beliefs in an environment where no view is censored, including opposing views.
People like the OP show what the effect is of allowing others to speak. He isn't even bothering to try to promote or defend his belief system, he is clumsily trying to present it as a least-harmful option. That's what happens when people like him can no longer silence dissenting voices. I say, let them speak; they can't get their feet into their mouths unless they open them first.
"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
-Stephen Jay Gould
