So, you've decided to abandon your original post completely and launch into a completely separate assortment of issues? It only took two posts from others before you've decided to move on?
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
On point though - I take issue with religion on a couple of matters, and I won't be particularly diplomatic about it:
If you choose a lack of diplomacy, how is it that you anticipate being treated?
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- Wars. How many ****ing wars are there going to be about religion? Although, to be fair, if there were no religion, people would find something else to fight about. Demagogic leaders will always find something to appeal to the populace.
Let's start by analyzing the question of how many wars there have been that are about religion? There is a variety of causes behind wars, including economics and ethnic issues. How are you sorting out the difference between these causes and religious ones?
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- Laws. Personally, I couldn't care if you want to read the bible (or the Brothers Grimm, or whatever else), but I object when you want to start abridging my rights based on your interpretation of it. I don't really care if your imaginary friend disapproves of where I put my penis - it's none of his business, nor yours.
There are lots of religious people who agree with you! Why are you treating all religious people with such a blanket accusation?
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- Conflation of religion and morality: "Oh you're an atheist, how can you be a good person?" I mean, **** you to anyone who says that. And my own mother said it to me.
Ironically, your original post is the conflation of religion and intelligence. "Oh you're a religious person? How can you be capable of rational thought?" You're basically just committing the exact same error that you're so upset about yourself? This is a textbook demonstration of hypocrisy.
But given the pattern of posting and reasoning demonstrated thus far in this thread, it seems that this is to be expected. After all...
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The mechanism through which you believe what you do about religious people is not that different from the mechanism that religious people use themselves.
So it seems quite expected that you would just continue onward making the same errors again and again.