(April 20, 2015 at 12:35 am)Exian Wrote: I just made the observation in anther thread that troll threads usually evolve into intelligent conversation...
I never thought of that. Troll threads, evolving like polychaete worms. Fascinating. I can see your point that the OP was a turd (the mods have pulled the flush lever) but in this one case I thought he had something to say.
(April 20, 2015 at 8:34 am)Dystopia Wrote: How many people who criticize religion....have actually studied deeply human psychology to see how it works? How many people in the west criticize anything other than the Abrahamic god? Are religious people irrational? The Japanese are 80% Shinto and they seem pretty rational, productive and have high IQ's.
To come out and argue the atheist position in public took real guts 75 years ago. Today, it's become just one of five hundred bandwagons all clamoring for attention. There are serious arguments from atheism, which in my opinion the religious aren't doing a good job of answering. Yet both sides of this fence are mostly populated by parrots now.
I wouldn't say you have to have a degree in anything to contribute meaningfully. But you do have to have read. A lot of people complaining about religion from a "scientific" viewpoint haven't read any science either, much less philosophy or theology related to the belief systems they wish to trash.
