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I treat all people with religious beliefs as members of a dormant terrorist cell.
They could be your nice neighbor with whom you can interact normally on a day-to-day basis, but in the end they all have compromised against logic and, in the right conditions, that is a terrible liability.
Under extenuating circumstances your argument does hold true. However being religious doesn't automatically mean you are not smart or somehow incapable of logic.
Exactly, you can conduct most interactions without problems and a good portion of them will even share the same views as me (a non-tankie-leftie).
The best depiction of what I mean on film has been given by Marcia Gay Harden in The Mist, in my opinion.
That is the kind of situation I prefigure whenever someone discloses faith to me, minus the tentacles.
Loved that movie. I guess I see where you're coming from; but your rhetoric stinks of elitism and condescension.
You are probably overestimating how much thought everyone who expressed a disagreeable moral here gives to that issue. Theists are the last of my problems.
Yeah still condescending. Whatevs
Sounds kinda mean
Sounds like I have some reading to do on those topics. It is weird when you see evil people wearing a cross for example, but I think they'd be just as evil without their religion? But yeah I'm sure their religion is a way for evil people to reason with themselves about what they do.
This is the kind of response I am used to: swearing due to offended identity, inherently divisive terminology like "our lands" and blaming for causing you to lose theist intestine wars.
Having tried a lot in the past, I know that a comment thread is not the place or modality to conduct a fruitful conversation with a Christian.
Being born a Catholic, I can tell you that epiphany came when I realized that all the good things I am sure you did do not need to bring with them the mark of a (made up) system of power: you own it yourself and the real animus driving your actions can be just a feeling of belonging to the human species at large, a species free to roam any land without the need to plant flags nor to feel attached to any place only to limit the potential of others and one's own.
Wait a second... gnostic like in Gnostic? I didn't know it was still a thing. I thought they had you all killed by the other Christians in the 2nd century.