Your opinion is just about as ill-founded as the writer in the article. Hell, I'm an atheist, but was raised in the Southern Baptist church in Texas. I still know many of these men and women, but would not see the indivdual members of the church as stupid nor as authoritarians. Many of them question the dogmas, just as I did, yet still find a reason to believe in their god. I have to respect that even if I do not.
So to decry a religionist as stupid is just as dogmatic and ill-informed as for a religionist to see me, as an Atheist, as stupid or ill-informed. Until human beings can come together and agree to disagree, yet protect to the hilt each others rights to our private beliefs we will not find democracy to ever be what the Enlightenment philosophes first fomented in the French and American Revolutions.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:13 pm (UTC)Your opinion is just about as ill-founded as the writer in the article. Hell, I'm an atheist, but was raised in the Southern Baptist church in Texas. I still know many of these men and women, but would not see the indivdual members of the church as stupid nor as authoritarians. Many of them question the dogmas, just as I did, yet still find a reason to believe in their god. I have to respect that even if I do not.
So to decry a religionist as stupid is just as dogmatic and ill-informed as for a religionist to see me, as an Atheist, as stupid or ill-informed. Until human beings can come together and agree to disagree, yet protect to the hilt each others rights to our private beliefs we will not find democracy to ever be what the Enlightenment philosophes first fomented in the French and American Revolutions.