Shameless

[darkstar3]

More and more, the religious in this country are shameless in their open intolerance of those who differ from them. How long until they manage to ACTUALLY start legislating belief? How long until just one of us posting in place like R/T is enough for consequences?

[laconicsax]

1. Something specific bring this up?

:shrug:

[darkstar3]

2. Several things, some of them in R/T, some of them in RL.

I live in bible belt, and I've been watching with distaste the march of Kristian morality laws, as well as watching with distate the march of "fuck atheists" sentiment.

Also, I slipped on a loose rug.

[laconicsax]

3. Whew! I just saw that exchange.

Not many things are more offensive than the privileged denying both their privilege and the reality of life for everyone else.

Calling it what it is usually doesn't fly on 'progressive' boards too. :grr:

[darkstar3]

4. Exactly right on both counts.

It's difficult to debate with someone who's never had to really work for anything in their life. It's difficult to debate with someone who has clearly never had to worry about their future, and who has never faced a choice between principles and livelihood.

No wonder I couldn't keep my temper.

[Ninjaneer]

7. "Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash"

The clown in the thread you speak of reminded me of that quote repeatedly.

[cleanhippie]

6. +1

[EvolveOrConvolve]

9. That exchange finally had me putting

that particular poster on my ignore list. It's unfathomable to me that this is tolerated in 2011.

[laconicsax]

10. Religion makes fools of otherwise reasonable people.

I recently watched a lecture where the following incident was recounted:

Person A: "I don't see how you can say that the Taliban's sense of morality is better or worse than anyone else's."
Person B (lecturer): "Ok, imagine there's some undiscovered tribe deep in the Amazon that gouges out the eyes of every third child. Wouldn't you say that what they're doing is wrong?"
A: "Well, why are they doing it."
B: "Let's say it's for religious reasons--their holy texts says 'every third shall go in darkness.'"
A: "Well then you could never say that it is wrong."

Person A is well educated and a policy advisor to the President.

[cleanhippie]

5. Its like the coming of the rapture in the 21st has them all whipped up and frothing.

Even some of the more "moderates" in R&T seem a bit unhinged. I think it has a lot to do with the reality of the absurdity of their beliefs being forced into their faces.

On a high note, our resident militant atheist hater got his ass handed to him, and good, and seems to be off licking his wounds. Very satisfying that thread was.

[Ninjaneer]

8. + 1