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Thread #161997 Message #3854262
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-May-17 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
Subject: RE: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
Rob Naylor says: But it's the shallow view of God that fundamentalists, creationists etc push forward when trying to promulgate their ideology into education, particularly in the USA but also through things like "ACE" schools in the UK.
And I would whole-heartedly join with opposition to any attempts to impose fundamentalism, creationism, and such on the rest of us. But Fry and Hitchens and Dawkins and many Mudcat atheists paint their positions with a wide brush, and insult all who have religious inclinations.
Most religious people are just as reasonable and civil and capable, as are most atheists. When any group paints another with a broad brush, the result is alienation. I don't think that's healthy. I feel insulted by the likes of Fry and Hitchens and Dawkins, and rightly so. If their true object of ridicule is fundamentalism and its effects on society, that's another matter.
I've taken the time to watch videos from Fry and Hitchens and Dawkins, and I find them to be uniformly insulting.
-Joe Offer-