(August 18, 2014 at 4:45 am)Esquilax Wrote: It's not just christians. Paranoia is a tool that a lot of religions use, which makes a lot of sense, given that they tend to phrase reality as a huge Us and Them confrontation in which Them is a supernaturally empowered evil force influencing every human who believes something other than what Us believes.
Case in point, we've had more than one muslim here who was convinced that mainstream science was an enormous conspiracy founded to keep down islamic truths in favor of evolution. How do you argue against a position like that?
Not just religious positions. All the political parties I hear from foment alarmism to raise donations.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
