The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3749145
Posted By: Steve Shaw
07-Nov-15 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Well, Dave, St Joe doesn't much care for atheists. I get that. For millennia, it's been impossible to criticise religion unless you don't mind being burned at the stake, having your head cut off, being ostracised from society, being honour-killed or being thrown into a dungeon. This meant that religion enjoyed a rather cosy and invulnerable position. Of course, that has now changed. Nowadays, we can have militant atheists who are actually free to speak their minds. No-one is likely to be killed. But for Joe and his ilk, this has rather put them on the back foot. They have several options. They could ignore us. They could take us on with honest argument. Or they can flail around and insult us, as Joe is inclined to do (and don't I only know it), realising in their panic that they have been, er, sussed, big time. That their theology and instruments of control are actually built on foundations of sand.