(September 22, 2015 at 4:28 pm)Dystopia Wrote: It is naive to assume someone who is deeply religious must also be really dumb - There certainly is a tendency (perhaps ignorance is a far better word to describe it) but let's not forget there are incredibly educated and smart terrorists planting bombs and committing suicide bombing, and clever, well educated intellectuals who support white supremacism and the whole white anglo saxon protestant thing
I agree with this. One of my first shocks into the facts of Islamic terrorism was to learn that a significant percent of the suicide bombers were highly educated: engineers and lawyers and architects, etc. This datum blew me away (so to speak).
It's one of the reasons I loathe fundamentalist-type religious thinking. The corrupting power of that sort of religion on the mind is not a matter of mere ignorance, but of a twisting of normal thought processes until the absolutely insane becomes plausible to that individual.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
