On Jun 23, 2005, at 9:06 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
Of course the religious are keen to volunteer to interfere in the lives of the unfortunate - this is a golden opportunity to disseminate the virulent poison of their evil religious memes.
Isn't a perspective unassailable by argument, no matter how rational, a hallmark of what we might call a religious mindset? Or is it more of a run-of-the-mill obsession?
Perhaps if you'd come to your atheism from an originally religious background you'd have more perspective on some of the *merits* of religion -- as well as considerably more justification to hate it. I got over my hatred (I think), and it took me years to do it. But at least, when I denigrate some of the religious practices extant in the world, I do it from a perspective of experience, from having once been an insider to those claustrophobic and self-righteous memes.
That could be why I can see evidence of those memes in your statements, while you're apparently unaware of them yourself.
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