RE: Does Religion make you nice?
September 2, 2010 at 2:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2010 at 2:22 am by Bull Poopie.)
(September 1, 2010 at 11:55 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:Because of the experiences I have had.
I understand and believe you. Perhaps emotionally satisfying, but a closed mind is the mind of the dogmatic apologist and the bigot. Besides,personal anecdotes are so much easier than having to bother with anything as prosaic as evidence.
So very well put :-)
Supperstar and Entropist that is very true as well. It is the characterist of the person personality that makes them nice or hateful but I still think religion can make them closed minded not to see others opinions or reasoning.
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" Letter to von Humboldt, 1813
