The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150591   Message #3509628
Posted By: Little Hawk
27-Apr-13 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Time Machine; Pick a Year...
Subject: RE: BS: Time Machine; Pick a Year...
Be glad you have the religious fundamentalists around to chuckle and snort at. It keeps you amused and allows you to avoid talking about anything substantial in terms of any real spiritual issues or any real philosophical questions about our lives that might have arisen in the course of human civilization. Christian fundamentalists who believe the world is only about 6,000 years old are as convenient for you conventional modern "rationalists" as you are for them. You both deal in the most rigid, extreme stereotypes of your supposed "opposite" that keep you assured you are among those in the know, those who are certain what is "the truth and the only truth", those who are not mired in gross ignorance and blind superstition. You both cleave to a learned set of common conventions that you got from others who came befor you, and you trust it without question, because to you it's "normal". You can identify the heretics or the lost or the damned in our midst in the blink of an eye. They are simply those who don't believe whatever you believe. It's a heady feeling having that kind of entitlement.