(August 6, 2014 at 7:13 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: It just goes to show you that not all atheists are rational. You can be an atheist and still believe in all kinds of crazy things that don't directly involve a god of some sort. You might believe in UFO abduction stories. You might believe in 9/11 Truther conspiracies. You might even read Ayn Rand* and think it economics gold.
As one example of social conservatism, two of the three most bigoted homophobes I've ever known were atheists. What made them different from the one Christian homophobe in my example was that the Christian could hide behind, "well, gee, it's not me, it's what God thinks." The two atheists could only either own their bigotry or try to pretend to minimize it whenever confronted.
*Assuming "The Invisible Hand" doesn't count as a deity.
Most anti-gay people I've met don't really use god in their arguments, they just say a marriage without procreation is not a valid institution and that homosexuality is disgusting.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
