Reply #44: Why indeed. Yet its certainly here. [View All]

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Why anyone would even bring the validity of religion beliefs into a discussion in a poltical forum is beyond me, even for "criticism" and not "bashing". It isn't a relgious forum, but a liberal democratic one, and still there isn't much doubt that there is an enormous amount of pure, unadulterated venting about whether religion is just bullshit or not.

The question remains: why talk about religious beliefs in personal and provocative terms, if at all? What does it matter if the politics are right?

Why would someone bother to state that religious belief is "delusional" or the source of evil in the world? You say that religious intolerance is something you have had to endure, why would you practice it on others? Ask the pilgrims, who escaped a land where they were religiously persecuted to found a new land where they were the religious persecutors. In DU, the anti-religious are in big enough numbers that they get to beat the religious for their association he piestic Bush and Falwell and Robertson.

Nor do I care to press alerts. One, because I don't run to mommy, and two, for every idiot post I would alert there are ten liberal democrat christians who see it and probably just get the picture they aren't welcome, because some would rather bust their balls over religion than have a common liberal democrat identity. I just say what I mean to say and hope people believe it, namely, that none of that shit matters to me enough to raise it as a divisive issue. There are more important fish to fry. But like I said, DU GD is the only place you can't escape religious discussion.