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Hi all,
How many here have anti-religious sentiments?
Just curious.
How many here have anti-religious sentiments?
Just curious.
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Thu, February 8, 2007 - 10:07 PMAnti religious?
I have biases against:
Hypocricy
willful ignorance
self deception
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Fri, February 9, 2007 - 12:34 AMSo when you survey the religious landscape are those principles hindered, helped or independent by or of religion? -
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Fri, February 9, 2007 - 8:01 AMSometimes I feel anti-religious and sometimes I don't. I guess it depends on which type of religious people I'm dealing with.
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Fri, February 9, 2007 - 8:32 AMnot so much anti religious as anti dogma.
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Sat, February 10, 2007 - 9:16 PMI'd have to lean towards independent.
I suspect that most peple are somatically programmed for the type of outlook they develop by late adolescence. For example i know a fundie pagan who used to be a fundy christian. This person is just as stridently pagan as they once were christian.
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Tue, February 13, 2007 - 5:44 PMYou can't rationally generalize. Many religious people (as well as nonreligious people) are decent people, and many aren't.
Anti-religious bigots who blast all religion and religious people indiscriminately are just as blinded by ignorance as religious bigots.
I find agnostics to be the most humble. We acknowledge that we don't know. It's the people with the arrogance of absolute certainty that are the troublemakers.
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Re: agnosticism and anti-religion
Sun, February 11, 2007 - 3:02 PMAs usual, I'm going to over analyse this.
I have sentiments against religious institutions. (Nuff said.)
I don't have sentiments against religious people that I know if they are rational people, yet, even then, religion is still a stumbling block for dialog about political, moral and social issues. It's like they've been brainwashed into believing that religion should inform all issues. My mother, a devout Baptist, tought me that separation of church and state is a good thing and must be protected. I learned that in public school as well. Yet this seems to be a foreign and subversive idea today.
Troubling.
