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Mind explaining how social liberal = religious skeptic?
Are you attempting to suggest there is no connection? Are you really trying to reject the FACT that the vast majority of those who make up the atheist anti-Christian movement are not liberals?
Aside from the very small number of persons claiming to be social "conservative" atheists, (with those few likely to have a different definition of conservative than most) the vast majority are indeed self identified liberals.
BTW ..... "breaking news" .... chickens have feathers.
Agreed. Ask any liberal- they are conferred a MENSA membership by pulling the "D" lever in the voting booth and have been beguilled by thier handlers into believing that the lunacy of liberalism, and the false empathy that accompanies it, is a reflection of superior intelligence. Certainly the contrary is true and simply reveals an unparalleled level of gullibility and blind acceptance of what any rational being would immediately dismiss as nonsense. Liberalism is a divorce from the constraints of adult responsibilty and rational thought to seek the refuge of a perpetual childhood, in which reality is dismissed and an unrealistic, fantasy view of the world is embraced.
No wonder Michael Savage calls liberalism a "mental disorder". Certainly this is reflected by the higher incidence of mental illness among liberals vs conservatives. One wonders whether it is a "chicken or the egg" effect.
Agreed. Ask any liberal- they are conferred a MENSA membership by pulling the "D" lever in the voting booth and have been beguilled by thier handlers into believing that the lunacy of liberalism, and the false empathy that accompanies it, is a reflection of superior intelligence. Certainly the contrary is true and simply reveals an unparalleled level of gullibility and blind acceptance of what any rational being would immediately dismiss as nonsense. Liberalism is a divorce from the constraints of adult responsibilty and rational thought to seek the refuge of a perpetual childhood, in which reality is dismissed and an unrealistic, fantasy view of the world is embraced.
OP..why do you need validation in your supposed faith? Only a person that has doubts and questions the validity of what they have accepted as the truth, requires such incessant confirmation of their belief system.
Only the faith that faces up to doubts and questions is a faith worth having. If there is a God and that God gave us free will and the capacity for critial thought, why wouldn't we use it?
Au contraire! Inaccurate, in fact. Try reading the first sentence; it does not make sense.
" god's gentleness"???? WTF! Read your bible or indeed any newspaper to clearly learn about all that gentleness.
And on a personal level, I am as conservative as they come yet I have been an atheist since I was a teenager...not because of any "pose" or wanting to be different but because the belief simply did not make sense to me. I chose to actually THINK rather than to blindly believe in the god who is currently fashionable or any of the many others who have been discarded over the years.
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And you know that the person referred to a fundamentalist Christian interpretation of God how? Who are you to say that it is inaccurate to say the God someone else believes in is gentle? You are an admitted atheist but somehow you have a better interpretation of this guy's God than he does? Not only is it unfogivably presumptuous of an atheist to tell a believer that their characterization of God is inaccurate, but you don't even know that he's referring to the same God at all that you are. If you choose to "actually THINK", as you said, then I would expect you to question someone regarding what they've said rather than declaring it inaccurate based on all of 2 words.
Alfred Korzybski said: "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." Surely, for some, to have faith may be a good thing; but one need temper it with a good amount of scepticism.
Alfred Korzybski said: "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." Surely, for some, to have faith may be a good thing; but one need temper it with a good amount of scepticism.
I agree. One can have faith, but still question. Without questions how do we learn? How do we evolve?
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