Reply #36: You are in no position to call anyone "mindless." [View All]

[Deep13]

You don't have the intellectual courage to challenge a basic, demonstrably false, assumption of our society, so instead you cling to the anachronistic notion that religion is an integral part of humanity. (Of course we once said the same thing about monarchy and slavery.) Challenging ones religion, therefore, is the same as challenging his race or gender. Well, it's not the same. It is demonstrably true that religion makes well-meaning people to horrible things to each other. This is an objective fact. You insist that because you maintain the religious belief that religious belief deserves respect that anyone who doesn't is a bigot. Your insistence that there is no other legitimate point of view and that everyone should respect the most barking mad beliefs is itself religious bigoty.

Would you expect Christians to maintain Kosher dietary laws? Would you expect Buddists to pray to Mecca? Of course not. Yet you expect nonbelievers to respect all these things. To be a nonbeliever is to reject the notion that religious ideas deserve respect without proof or justification. You expect "because I said so" to be seriously accepted and those who don't are prejudiced.

I've looked at the facts and their conclusions are inescapable. If we continue to accept your point of view, modernity is doomed.