Mini-Rants: All the vitreol, half the calories

[napoleonofnerds]

- Being an atheist for no particular reason is not any more rational than being a theist out of blind obedience. That Richard Dawkins rails against the Papacy couldn't possibly be less convincing when he's setting up one of his own, appealing to "science" as devoid of intellectual content as Biblical fundamentalism. I'm really fucking tired of

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[lexigrapheme]

I love you

[napoleonofnerds]

You're such a product of your era, cinch.

[shcromlet]

Did I miss some sort of eye-rollingly bad online atheism debate or something? This is what atheist_fail is supposed to keep me abreast of! Bah.

[napoleonofnerds]

No, that rant was inspired by my life.

[pastorlenny]

You go, boyee.

The conflation of science and reason is particularly bizarre -- as though our only access to truth were by whatever instrumentation we happen to be capable of building that century.

And it does indeed seem as though the some combination of process mechanics (campaign finance requirements, political litmus-testing, etc.) has fully gummed up the works when it comes to elevating talent. I mean Trump and Palin???

Your positions here are so sane that it is almost incomprehensible that they seem not to be part of the present discourse. It's like the only voices are "Don't touch it!" and "Gut it!" And yet so many people who actually know something understand that everything is quite fixable. Part of me thinks this is just a language problem that I could easily fix if I was the sppechwriter for the right sort of candidate. But that sort of candidate would fail either party's litmus tests.

[gislebertus]

Your first paragraph was simply glorious.