A particular peeve of mine is the assertion that if someone believes in God they are childish or deluded or insane. You can't prove there is such a thing as God. You are merely acting on social conditioning and certain chemical processes that you THINK are some effects of God. Belief in God is a dangerous plague on mankind and more people have been killed because of God...
Do you love your parents? Your friends? Your kids?
Unless you can replace "God" with "Love" (and some people can) you don't get to call me nuts for believing in something intangible yet significant.
Edit: Now I am going to go put that up on Salon and the point will be utterly ignored. Let's go watch!
aagh@@@
They' won't JUST ignore it! They'll get to pick at my symantics AND ignore it.
SCORE
meara! The DC Kings are mentioned in an article in today's Slate! [link]
Have we not learned about Salon letters?
::Pulls up chair in bitches. Seethes. Tries not to think. More seethe.::
I find it deeply amusing that when I need religious info, I always turn to my favorite atheist. ND helped me so much while I was teaching the Bible as literature; I don't know what I would have done without him.
Not only could he explain anything I didn't understand, he gave me history, a synopsis of any controversy surrounding the story, and context for how it has been interpreted culturally. That boy KNOWS his Bible.
billytea, too. IIRC, he came to his atheism the same way that ND did; a seriously strong background in Bible knowledge, and then a whole lot of serious thought and wrestling with issues.
Sean, lots of ~ma to you and S.
The guy who wrote Misquoting Jesus was very fundamentalist--went to Moody Bible College, etc. He wanted to be able to read the bible in the original languages so he learned Greek and Hebrew and became a textual critic. Which lead him to his agnosticism.
Aimee, how'd the wedding go?
Hey there, honey!
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Sorry. "Hail there, honey!"
