RE: Evolutionary biology adopting religious traits
December 27, 2014 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2014 at 4:05 pm by robvalue.)
Requiring people to keep their own superstitions out of your face is not the same as creating your own. Religion (in America at least) constantly wants to stick its nose in everywhere.
If I had kids, I wouldn't care if they took part in a nativity, as long as it didn't include a preaching element. I consider indoctrination child abuse, no matter how long or little it is done for.
I'm in England and it's not much of an issue here, so I just try to support other atheists.
I might be being really thick but I still don't get your point. What action are you suggesting?
Atheism is not a worldview, sorry. You are making it into more than it is.
So, what do you think needs to be done? I agree there will probably be a post-theist era in the free countries at least, but I cannot understand the problems you foresee.
Also, atheism, science, humanism and evolution are all separate things. To treat it as a package is over simplifying.
If I had kids, I wouldn't care if they took part in a nativity, as long as it didn't include a preaching element. I consider indoctrination child abuse, no matter how long or little it is done for.
I'm in England and it's not much of an issue here, so I just try to support other atheists.
I might be being really thick but I still don't get your point. What action are you suggesting?
Atheism is not a worldview, sorry. You are making it into more than it is.
So, what do you think needs to be done? I agree there will probably be a post-theist era in the free countries at least, but I cannot understand the problems you foresee.
Also, atheism, science, humanism and evolution are all separate things. To treat it as a package is over simplifying.
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