I voted yes, I'll admit to my bias. I recognize it though, and I don't let it germinate.
Usually the way it comes up is what leads to my change in opinion, however. Recently in TN, I am hearing a lot of side conversations about how this country is going to heyell because the homo 'agenda' is winning. Say that thought aloud, and my opinion of you drops. You do really hear some of the more deplorable things coming out of theists' mouths.
I stop myself when it comes to intelligence, though. I don't think you're necessarily stupid if you've been brainwashed and blackmailed into believing in religion. Of course, some of the corollary stuff that comes along with it, especially in the South, hampers my ability to stop myself.
Usually the way it comes up is what leads to my change in opinion, however. Recently in TN, I am hearing a lot of side conversations about how this country is going to heyell because the homo 'agenda' is winning. Say that thought aloud, and my opinion of you drops. You do really hear some of the more deplorable things coming out of theists' mouths.
I stop myself when it comes to intelligence, though. I don't think you're necessarily stupid if you've been brainwashed and blackmailed into believing in religion. Of course, some of the corollary stuff that comes along with it, especially in the South, hampers my ability to stop myself.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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