Evangelical Athiests.

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Okay - you guys know me. I love science. I love nothing more than to snuggle down with a Carl Sagan book and get ready to have my mind utterly blown at the staggering awesomeness of the universe. You also know that I believe in a naturalistic, ineffable spirit God that we humans can't comprehend without going insane, so we have to digest It in bite-size gobbets of wisdom, hence, differing religions and thought processes (science).

I am utterly respectful of one's right not to believe in God. I also know that morality is separate from belief and that you can be a perfectly wonderful human being and not believe in anything other than what can be proven with logic and science.

Then you get people like this. Or Richard Dawkins. People that have taken it upon themselves to view what they call 'religion' as some kind of scourge of society that needs to be wiped out. To them I say: Who the hell asked you?

One of the first things a person has to learn in life is that each life is that own person's journey. It's their trip - you can't understand it. You can empathise, but you can't know it. You can't take someone's spirituality away from them. You'd be crazy to even *try*. It's one of the very things that define humans as a species - the tendency to have a belief system based on supernatural beliefs. And I'll agree, a lot of shitty things have been done in the name of religion. I've been a victim of that, being a queer woman and all. Do you see me calling for the whole-sale phasing out of religion? No. It just seems crazy talk to me. It's getting a little too much like the scary fundamentalist religious sorts that want to convert the whole world to their religion.

Here's a tip for free - it ain't ever gonna happen, yo. It's just not in human nature. Humans are a varying, kenspeckle, eccentric bunch of sentients that will disagree just because they can. Rebellion is second nature. Free will is our greatest asset and eradicating one of our rights kinda goes against that very tenet.

Religion is a reality - people believe in crazy shit. Athiests like skepchick need to relax and get the fuck over it.

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Stalin, Hitler and the Pope walked into a bar.

[flyingreptile.livejournal.com]

Well mordernist and postmordernist idealogies have had enormous amount of institutional power in the guise of Communism and Fascism. Neither of these have ever given a shit about Dawkins, ofcourse. Then again, I understand that his holiness would not be likely to care much about any of the fundamentalist evangelical types that are all the rage these days; the Roman Catholic church is very conservative so I don't see what they would have in common with the "I read a few select parts of the bible once so now I'm fully qualified to lecture everyone on how 9/11 was sent to punish the US for its predominantly Christian ethos that I consider not to be Christian" crowd.