(August 5, 2014 at 1:19 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I think the thing that pisses me off the most about this is that the Christian Right actually believes that anything less than carte blanche to do as they please under the guise of religious freedom is persecution,Think about the belief system. They believe they represent the best way to live now and the best way to live for the future, for all people. Therefore, any attempt to interfere with that is not only hurting them, but everyone else, whether they realize it or not. If that is what you believe, then any attempt to keep you from implementing a 'Christian society' would amount to persecution. If god is on your side, why would you want to give any other side a chance to do anything?
And if what they believe isn't true? Then you have a good example of how religion can harm people in ways both obvious and subtle.
"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
