I have not especially noticed any attacks on atheism. Perhaps they went under my radar tho; I tend to disregard any discussion of isms anymore. But I don't see a lot of religious discussion here either and I would think I would notice.
Being as Sean is from Belfast I can understand his feelings on the subject; but a majority of the religious people I have know are sincerely trying to do the right thing. The harm comes where they are told that the right thnig is to vote for yon corrupt politician or to firebomb that clinic (we just had one of those here, though the religious link is not yet demonstrated) or for that matter to take a gun and kill so and so who worships a different way. I've lived in the Bible Belt and found even the very fundamentalist really don't preach; tho they may invite you to services. The horror :) They do tend to want to "save" your children. This bothered me a bit and might be part of what you are going through. On the whole though, children are wiser than we think. my .02 On Dec 7, 2007 9:54 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 10:07 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Christian's: Paranoid or not > > > > you know what, I agree with Sam here. I'm not the most religious person > > and > > I don't practice at ALL but I'm a bit incredulous about the rants I > > have > > seen here. Yes, religion has been the excuse for a lot of evil deeds. > > We get > > it. But there is nothing inherent in religion which leads to evil; on > > the > > contrary. The fact that people pervert calls for loving their brother > > into > > reasons to kill him has more to do with human nature imho than religion > > itself. > > > I think it's human nature to feel set upon. > > There's a famous study that illustrates this to an extent. People were > asked to hit each other - but only as hard as the previous person hit > them. > Universally people hit others harder than they were hit in the first > place. > > Lately there's been a lot of attacks on atheism and I'll happily admit > that > I've probably struck back harder than was necessary. This may also have > to > do with my moving from a very open, generally humanist community to a > rather > closed, religious community. > > I make no apologies for defending my position, when it's questioned, as > vigorously or as passionately as I can. I do however, sincerely, > apologize > if I've been seen to attack religion (or religious people) without prior > cause. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247938 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
