is that a polite way of asking me to attack your beliefs? alright, ill go for this quote : "It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate."
the extremist religious viewpoint in our society is full of fault. i will always agree with that. But how can that side be considered better or worse than the other extremist view that not only is there no god, no higher power, only science, but that religion itself is a plague on this earth that must be eradicated? I'm not an atheist, I was raised catholic, so i have faith. It isn't necessarily the faith of the church, but it is faith. to me dawkins would just as soon set forth a crusade of his own to eliminate religiously extreme as the christians would to eliminate islamic extremism. I dont like exchanging one extreme for another. They're both wrong to me.
i agree with you i dont feel that religion should be abolished but i do feel like it tends to cause more conflicts then solve problems. also im not an atheist i would consider myself a deist. ill admit that i didnt really know what that was until ansell told me to look it up about a year ago but i fee like those are pretty much the beliefs that i have.
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also, this makes me want to listen to more hulud
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and do you have faith?
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"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate."
the extremist religious viewpoint in our society is full of fault. i will always agree with that. But how can that side be considered better or worse than the other extremist view that not only is there no god, no higher power, only science, but that religion itself is a plague on this earth that must be eradicated? I'm not an atheist, I was raised catholic, so i have faith. It isn't necessarily the faith of the church, but it is faith. to me dawkins would just as soon set forth a crusade of his own to eliminate religiously extreme as the christians would to eliminate islamic extremism. I dont like exchanging one extreme for another. They're both wrong to me.
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