On 23 Jun 2005, at 7:22 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
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 perhaps a hallmark of my being irrefutably correct? There's a
reason arguing against religion is like shooting fish in a barrel and
that reason is that religion is a load of evil nonsense.
Or is it more of a run-of-the-mill obsession?
Everyone needs a few hobbies.
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.
They aren't religious though, so they don't count.
--
William T Goodall
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"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.'
There is no evidence that people want to use these things."
-John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
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