09-22-2011, 10:38 AM
If I have ever offered a point of view that anyone has found helpful I apologise in advance to those people. Maybe I've just been here too long and my days in this place are numbered, but ...
<flameon>My tongue is in shreds from having bitten it so hard to keep silent these past weeks. I have observed one or two newcomers (appropriately promoted to the status of "Insane Poster") draw out childlike hope in many and I have fallen into the trap of affording believers some kind of respect for their utterly unsubstantiated and unprovable convictions. My inner two year-old is now responding with a blazing tantrum. Evangelism is not a service to one's fellow men, it is insulting and designed to perpetuate fear, guilt and subservience. Quoting isolated sentences from a far from universally accepted book of fables as if they are somehow facts is demeaning to us all. If any of you consider your intellect is a gift from your god, bloody well use it! </flameon>
Dammit, here are some of the fun vids I have wanted to post, but was too polite to do so:
I am a little embarrassed that these films are by someone who calls himself "The Thinking Atheist" (as if thinking were the prerogative of the unbeliever), but they are short, well made, fun and save me from having to think too hard.
With love to the many friends I have made on here.
<flameon>My tongue is in shreds from having bitten it so hard to keep silent these past weeks. I have observed one or two newcomers (appropriately promoted to the status of "Insane Poster") draw out childlike hope in many and I have fallen into the trap of affording believers some kind of respect for their utterly unsubstantiated and unprovable convictions. My inner two year-old is now responding with a blazing tantrum. Evangelism is not a service to one's fellow men, it is insulting and designed to perpetuate fear, guilt and subservience. Quoting isolated sentences from a far from universally accepted book of fables as if they are somehow facts is demeaning to us all. If any of you consider your intellect is a gift from your god, bloody well use it! </flameon>
Dammit, here are some of the fun vids I have wanted to post, but was too polite to do so:
I am a little embarrassed that these films are by someone who calls himself "The Thinking Atheist" (as if thinking were the prerogative of the unbeliever), but they are short, well made, fun and save me from having to think too hard.
With love to the many friends I have made on here.