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Thread #126884 Message #2828369
Posted By: GUEST,Pastinaken
02-Feb-10 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: How to rule by fear - Execute them
Subject: RE: BS: How to rule by fear - Execute them
It isn't good, Mousetheif, it's great! Worth re-reading several times. I hope you enjoy it.
Little Hawk, you seem to fall for the old trap of thinking (1) that to ask for some evidence for the often very odd things people believe in is somehow an equivalent to religious fundamentalism (!)and (2)that 'spiritual' and 'religious' are neccessarily the same things. They are not. I am a deeply spiritual atheist - you should see the tears drip off the end of my nose when I listen to certain pieces of music! I know an awful lot of materialistic, hard-faced religious believers I can tell you.
You do not seem to think criticising religion is legitimate - to do so more than a few times makes it a 'pet hobby' and is to you evidence of psychological illness. When religion informs discrimination against women and the demonisation of homosexuals, campaigns against condom use in AIDS stricken Africa, campaigns agaist the rights of terminally ill people to die with dignity instead of in terrible pain - etc, etc, etc - to criticise religion is not a 'pet hobby' but a moral duty.