The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer

[Otto]

Being "not tolerant" among liberals means not being silent out of 
politeness if people believing in religion are talking nonsense. This 
nonsense, for example, could be what has been said by Christian 
Democrats in Germany regarding the EU-membership of Turkey or our 
"national character," that there's a "Leading Christian Culture" in 
central Europe. To be tolerant here indeed would mean being a hypocrite.

If you tell someone from that "intelligent design" fraction he/she is 
talking simple hocuspocus and that there's more scientific evidence in 
the Bros. Grimm-tales nobody might bother. But if you say that all 
religious belief is superstition (the Nietzsche point) some other 
liberal will call you to order. It seems inappropriate to tell Jews, 
Christians and Muslims that they just fell victim to some childlike 
desert-belief of some nomad tribes from a long time ago. Therefore it 
needs to be done!
It's not about "destroying religion" but about being impolite and rude 
when religious zealots are around.

The whole German "We are Pope"-attitude this year for example, agnostic 
people feeling proud because of the German pope etc, made me sick! Lot 
of hypocrisy around here.

Otto

Cyrus wrote:

> Joel Katz wrote:
>
>> and i only brought it up to illustrate the kind of scale i think any 
>> question of a 'supreme being' belongs on.  and how little it has to 
>> do with the fright-mask projections of vanity, the mulleted gods of 
>> shitsville, okla., that get passed around these days as the genuine 
>> article.
>>
>> which brings me back to my original point, that charity begins at 
>> home:  if you tolerate religion in your midst, you're a hypocrite.
>>
>
> You lost me here. How does this follow? Or do you propose 
> rationalists, agnostics, atheists etc. should actively try to destroy 
> religion and/or force the general population into stop believing in 
> supreme beings -- something impossible, by the way: many (heck, most) 
> people need some sort of religion to rely on in order to get by. How 
> can tolerating this be seen as hypocrisy?
>
> Cyrus
>


	

	
		
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