Comments on: Why I consider religion http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/ Not praying for (or on) you Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: nullifidian http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-7658 nullifidian Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:58:10 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/#comment-7658 Why thank you! :-) Why thank you! :-)

]]> By: Erra http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-7656 Erra Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:29:09 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/#comment-7656 I wouldn't think or argue about religion, if the religious didn't try to force their views on me through legislation, advertising, evangelising, preaching, etc. Keep religion in the churches, and in your private home, and most atheists will probrably stop caring. It's when you teach lies in schools, deny proper education, retard science and medicine, preach hate and intolerance, deny people the right to love and marry who they choose, and otherwise inflict your deluded beliefs on the rest of us, that athiests, agnostics, and all rational human beings, need to protest religion. I wouldn't think or argue about religion, if the religious didn't try to force their views on me through legislation, advertising, evangelising, preaching, etc. Keep religion in the churches, and in your private home, and most atheists will probrably stop caring. It's when you teach lies in schools, deny proper education, retard science and medicine, preach hate and intolerance, deny people the right to love and marry who they choose, and otherwise inflict your deluded beliefs on the rest of us, that athiests, agnostics, and all rational human beings, need to protest religion.

]]> By: Thorn http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-7551 Thorn Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:26:15 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/#comment-7551 That's a fine poem null. That's a fine poem null.

]]> By: Vijkis http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-3351 Vijkis Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:00:47 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/#comment-3351 This reminds me of my sister who notes that me being an atheist tend to think more about god than a normal theist would do because i spend more time blogging around in atheist websites. This reminds me of my sister who notes that me being an atheist tend to think more about god than a normal theist would do because i spend more time blogging around in atheist websites.

]]> By: TW http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-1217 TW Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:19:49 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/#comment-1217 Null - I agree wholeheartedly and would have pretty much said exactly what AV said. Except I was beaten to it. Null – I agree wholeheartedly and would have pretty much said exactly what AV said.

Except I was beaten to it.

]]> By: AV http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 AV Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:57:52 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/07/09/why-i-consider-religion/#comment-1215 Shinade's comment is so inane that I hardly know where to begin. If one ought to remain silent on the things one does not believe exists, then that pretty much rules out most discussion of fiction. No Shakespeare, no <i>Lord of the Rings</i>, no <i>Harry Potter</i>--we mustn't discuss these things unless we actually believe that a Scottish king named Macbeth met three witches who foretold his future, that there was a land on Earth called Mordor, and that somewhere near the UK there is a training academy for wizards. Furthermore, we live in a world suffused with religion and magical thinking. Many countries in the world are either theocracies or have no separation of church and state, and in those countries where such a wall exists, religious forces are constantly looking for ways to argue it out of existence. As people who have an intellectual disagreement with the vast majority of the human race, to say the least, and as people who have the most to lose should the theocrats ever hold sway in those secular liberal democracies where atheists currently don't have to fear imprisonment or worse for not worshipping a sky-daddy, it's far from surprising that religion would be a topic of discussion for atheists. Also . . . what you said. Shinade’s comment is so inane that I hardly know where to begin.

If one ought to remain silent on the things one does not believe exists, then that pretty much rules out most discussion of fiction. No Shakespeare, no Lord of the Rings, no Harry Potter–we mustn’t discuss these things unless we actually believe that a Scottish king named Macbeth met three witches who foretold his future, that there was a land on Earth called Mordor, and that somewhere near the UK there is a training academy for wizards.

Furthermore, we live in a world suffused with religion and magical thinking. Many countries in the world are either theocracies or have no separation of church and state, and in those countries where such a wall exists, religious forces are constantly looking for ways to argue it out of existence. As people who have an intellectual disagreement with the vast majority of the human race, to say the least, and as people who have the most to lose should the theocrats ever hold sway in those secular liberal democracies where atheists currently don’t have to fear imprisonment or worse for not worshipping a sky-daddy, it’s far from surprising that religion would be a topic of discussion for atheists.

Also . . . what you said.

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