Posted: Apr 01, 2016 9:34 am
blue triangle wrote: However, I need to clarify something here. What I meant by saying the issue is vital is because of the power of belief: believing is seeing.
Eye witness testimony is one of the worst form's evidence. It is only worthwhile if it can be independently verified that you did, in fact, see what you say you saw.
blue triangle wrote:Even if I am right about God and my religion or sect teaches hatred or scorn for out-groups, something needs to be done about that religion or sect.
Which can be done without any need to try and address the issue of a deity's existence.
blue triangle wrote: It's precisely because people do blow themselves up in metro stations, and detonate nuclear weapons and commit genocide and oppress people of other races because of their beliefs, in a shrinking world, that this issue is so current.
Well indeed. If people didn't go round believing in nonsense concepts like "god" and "heaven" and believed that they can get to "heaven" faster by blowing themselves up, we might see less of such atrocities. We'd see less in the way of atrocities if thin skinned fuck witted primitives didn't interpret criticism of their religion as a criticism of themselves and promptly went off to shoot up a satirical magazine.
If you're serious about tackling those problems, then you have the wrong argument for this audience. Indeed, you have the wrong argument and the wrong audience.