Do you treat atheist like second class citizens?

It would take someone intelligent enough to see beyond their own bias to comprehend that. You my friend are obviously intelligent.

 

i said from the start that you were saying nothing, making no point at all. you just proclaimed that some wonderful events happened once. good for you i guess.

 

Nope. At least that's not what I got out of his rantings. He's been saying that he's created a rationale within his own gray matter and even though it makes no logical sense whatsoever he's going to continue to use this personal definition of how he thinks the unseen world works to live by.

It's the same sort of personal indifference that leads people to blow up government buildings and fly aircraft into landmarks. Now, those are definitely extreme circumstances and I do not mean to insinuate that they are normal. Take Industrial Safety as an example though. It might not make sense to you to lock out a piece of equipment when someone is working on it because no one else is around, but you do it anyway because it forms good habits. Somewhere, sometime that could very well kill you if all the pieces fall into place.

So, while I doubt that LT is about to grab his deer rifle and head to the nearest abortion clinic, it's a tragedy that this kind of behavior is accepted and even in some cases encouraged. It's cool contained within walls of your home, but we're not talking about a chemical habit or something that can be kept contained within four walls. It's an idea which is not restricted by physical walls and it that empowers the logically challenged becoming dangerous to us all.

 

Glad to see we have a resident psychologist, who is another one who believes that their own self image is greater than everyone elses. You might be shocked to know that there are more people who believe in christianity and God, yet acknowledge the importance and findings of science, than you know. I don't believe any of them are going to go out and start blowing up buildings.

 

Really? A giant leap?





Almost every time I turn on the TV I see examples of people doing the same thing: using personal rationale created in their make-believe world to kill someone who doesn't feel the way they feel or even worse, kill people just hanging around the wrong area when the **** goes down. "Giant leap", you say? I call it "stating the obvious"...

There's plenty of gray in the world. I believe that there might be a god out there, but until I see evidence of it I chalk it up to "I don't know". What I don't do is go around creating fairy tales to set my mind at ease. I don't have to know the answer to everything. Imagination is great, but when you start making life choices around it, then you're headed down the road of fools and bringing your loved ones with you. One of these days that might have a direct impact on my life or the lives of my loved ones.

 

MLU, you really have nothing to worry about. It isn't those who use a logical rational to define some of the issues in life, it is those that use extreme ideologies to impose their will. There is a big difference. I would think you're intelligent enough to understand that, but then again.

 

No, I didn't confuse the two. It's starts somewhere and personal religious beliefs are the seed that sows a lot of fanaticsm. I'm pretty sure that I made it very clear that it's where it starts and that I have no doubts that LT is not on the violent end of the spectrum.