The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3749642
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-Nov-15 - 07:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Well, Kevin, if you hold out that evolution is false, against all the evidence, and that the world was created in 4004 BC or whatever it was, you are a fool. I can be very diplomatic and not actually call you a fool and try to be very nice in trying, pointlessly, to change your mind. Or I can hold exactly the same opinion of you and shoot with both barrels. I can't be bigoted the one way and not the other. I tend towards the latter because I feel that religion has done a lot of damage to a lot of people and has drawn thoroughly undeserved respect for millennia, quite often achieved by coercion. I love very many people in my life who believe in God, but each and every one of them is deluded in that regard. Not in every regard but definitely in that one. I could choose a nicer word, but deluded is accurate. I don't mind being called undiplomatic, but if you want to show that I'm bigoted you'd better be able to point to exactly what the factual stuff is that I've missed. So far, that has not been forthcoming. "Bigoted" does not mean the same as "rude and disagreeing with Joe, Kevin and pete."