On 20 Jul 2014, at 05:26, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <[email protected]
> wrote:
> I would describe it as a societal paradigm... this unspoken rule
that all should respect religion.
Yes, but why does religion and only religion get this special
treatment? Nobody thinks that all political ideas deserve respect,
or economic ideas or scientific ideas or artistic ideas; some ideas
deserve contempt, UNLESS it's a religious idea, and then you're
supposed to respect it no matter how imbecilic or evil it is. My
question is why.
Because we have separated science from theology, or theology from
science, which is a way to give a right for the absence of rigor in
the human affairs, and that idea is loved by all those who want to use
authoritarian powers to control others.
We are encouraged to respect the bullshit of others to better swallow
our own bullshit.
I agree with you, that is very sad.
Unfortunately, atheism, the strong form that you seem to defend, is de
facto an ally of the religious bullshit, by mocking systematically the
attempts of being serious in theology. very often, the atheists are
the one pleading for the respect of religion. They don't see that they
make apology of dogma, sometimes their own, in the process.
Bruno
John K Clark
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