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Religious bumper stickers and other annoying religious actions. (rant, sorta)
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RE: Religious bumper stickers and other annoying religious actions. (rant, sorta)
(May 7, 2015 at 1:46 pm)DIRTY_DEEDS_93 Wrote: Anybody else get super annoyed at people with bumper stickers saying "Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly!" or "Jesus loves you"? Or people going door to door going through nonsense as to why you should join their cult-like religion? Or public prayers at sporting events?
No to the first two, or to the public prayers at sporting events.  Yes, to people doing door to door, though that has more to do with the direct interruption of my time than by what is being offered.  Religion annoys me very little, and my only concerns are ever about what effect it can have on people and societies, mostly via attempts at legislating behavior or education.  Aside from that, the behaviors that annoy me would do so even if they were about something else.  For example, my sister posts a lot of religious stuff on her Facebook, and I either ignore or block most of it.  But I do the same for conspiracy theory stuff (posted by a friend) or political stuff (posted by another friend).
"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
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RE: Religious bumper stickers and other annoying religious actions. (rant, sorta) - by Tonus - May 8, 2015 at 10:47 am

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