...i really just don't understand the insistence on calling people stupid. oh, well, i guess it does make us feel better about our inability to organize them toward the revolution (which is not to be confused with an eschatology, since it's, you know, scientific). it's not us. it's them. and their stupidity. not us. and our condescending paternalism.
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Just so.
Calling billions of people "stupid" because they nurture religious belief is, I think, pointlessly odd and I don't have any time for it - even as a non-believer.
For one thing, I know for a fact that my mother - a religious woman - is very far from "stupid". No doubt the same can be said for the multitude of believers inhabiting the globe.
But as you say Jeffrey, a back and forth on this topic, in this form, has happened several times before and is indeed a sedative. My intention was to encourage non-believers to share a bit of their intellectual bios, not call for yet another 'Two Minute Hate' session against religious thought.
meh.
.d.