Skeptic Bob
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They're a mixed bag, as are us non-religious folks.
There are atheists bigots too soooo yeah
There are atheists bigots too soooo yeah
I was thinking the same thing.Funny. I've met lots of non religious people who are the same way.
Nope.
I've yet to see any inherent moral superiority amongst the irreligious.
It's an absurd question, though it did make for an entertaining thread.
I was thinking the same thing.
I've met far more callous people amongst the irreligious bunch than the religious one. But, that's just another anecdote.
In my experience the religious, the fanatics (or worse, the extremists) are evil at heart and need the "heavenly" aura in religion to hide their true intentions.
Here's how it is rookie,
What you do is make posts related to the OP. If options about atheists were to be available then this would be relevant.
But there is no option about atheists in the polls, is there?
If you so wish to tackle the matter then open up an appropriate thread bout such issues and we will see where it goes.
big·ot
ˈbiɡət/
noun
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots
a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.
My experiences tell me yes, all people who strictly try to follow ancient religions are bigots. I'm curious of other peoples opinions on this.
My theory is that religion exploits a vulnerability within the mind that can be used to stir up innate bigotry, but not necessarily so. Once religion enters your mind, it is very difficult to separate your genuine, rational beliefs from religious dogma. Like a virus in a computer, it can spread and overwrite otherwise benign data, infecting it. Eventually you're left with a thought process that is full of religious pop-up windows that chugs along at half the speed of a regular person's intellect.
My theory is that religion exploits a vulnerability within the mind that can be used to stir up innate bigotry, but not necessarily so. Once religion enters your mind, it is very difficult to separate your genuine, rational beliefs from religious dogma. Like a virus in a computer, it can spread and overwrite otherwise benign data, infecting it. Eventually you're left with a thought process that is full of religious pop-up windows that chugs along at half the speed of a regular person's intellect.
Depends on how you define “vulnerability.” You seem to see this as a weakness rather than as an openness.
Why would anyone necessarily need to separate “genuine” and “rational” beliefs from “religious dogma”?
That you see faith as an infected thought-process says much.
You aren’t going to find much empirical evidence, however, that a “regular person’s intellect” is any “faster” than the intellect of a person of faith.
So, according to you, many liberal gay Christians have infected minds.
By your reckoning, they are not Christians. So are you asking me to explain something that you outright reject to begin with?
My theory is that religion exploits a vulnerability within the mind that can be used to stir up innate bigotry, but not necessarily so. Once religion enters your mind, it is very difficult to separate your genuine, rational beliefs from religious dogma. Like a virus in a computer, it can spread and overwrite otherwise benign data, infecting it. Eventually you're left with a thought process that is full of religious pop-up windows that chugs along at half the speed of a regular person's intellect.
So you're questioning their Christianity as well as their minds.
According to YOU, are there gay Christians? And if so, are their minds infected with religion / Christianity?
If someone says they are Christian, I have no choice but to believe them. And yes, people who genuinely believe in magic, that angels and demons are real, and that scripture is literally true are infected.
90% of the time, Christians don't literally believe in magical nonsense, and only use the Bible as moral guide. Which seems fine with me.
Thus, gay Christians have infected minds, according to you.
As for magic, you have your own magical beliefs - that the universe suddenly appeared out of nothing as if it were a magician's trick, and that the first incredibly complex living cell suddenly appeared out of primordial swamp slime, etc.
big·ot
ˈbiɡət/
noun
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots
a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.
My experiences tell me yes, all people who strictly try to follow ancient religions are bigots. I'm curious of other peoples opinions on this.
You sound very intolerant of religion. Hmmmm.
Yeah right. Like none of the experience posters here have ever pointed out that kind of lack of logic in an OP.
And actually I find that most of those who declare themselves athiests, as opposed to those who won't mention it unless asked, are majority bigots as well.
I agree with you for the bold, but simply being religious does not make one do all the things you see the latter two do. OF course I'm willing to bet that you are only classifying those as Christian, and Muslim, maybe Jewish, as the religious, completely ignoring the Wiccans, Pagans, and other minor religions.