(December 13, 2018 at 9:13 am)Editz Wrote:Because galvanizing polar opposite sides of an emotional debate has historically been successful? You can't make a omelette without breaking eggs but you don't have to have an omelette at all. You just want an omelette. You want your side to win so you support your side by galvanizing because your side has to be right... sure go ahead, as I said, to each their own. law of conflict escalation is really socially forward. At least the religious don't have a monopoly on it.(December 13, 2018 at 8:46 am)tackattack Wrote: So religious belief is divisive and therefore cancer and you want to showcase that by wearing a divisive shirt. To each their own
Er, no. Religion is cancer because of 10001 reasons, divisiveness being just 1 of them. So the proposed shirt might be divisive (although perhaps it will unify and galvanise the atheists/agnostic majority?) - well, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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