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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
Atheists are idiots. I don't mean to offend anyone, so that makes it alright  |
You compare apples with oranges.
If I go and tell people: "Creationists are idiots, no offense", and leave it to that - then it is an offense.
If I go and say "creationists claim this and that, it has been proven wrong by this and that so many times, and still they repeat it, making themselves look like dogmatic fools", then this is something different.
And yes, of course people have the right to be held responsible for what they say (or believe in). So if you defend something that does not stand the test of reasonable analysis by scientific methods, just repating it endlessly nevertheless, then this makes oyu look like a parrot, and if you give reasons as aerguments that so very very very often have already been proven wrong, then this allows conclusions on your intellectual state of mind. - And then it may be justifiable to shportcut the long drama and avoid the endless useless propaganda march, and just tell somebody: "You believe
that? Idiot. Leave me alone."
Because the problem at the root of the problem is: try to make an idiot aware of what an idiot he is!
No respect where no respect is due. Inflationary distributing respect, devalues it. That is my view on it all. Creationists, believers and all the like have to earn people's respect instead of demanding to get a free ride for nothing. Until they understand that, its better if them and people not wanting to share their believes, stay separate, everybody for himself. So:
keep thy religion for thyself. Do not dare to bother others with it, or force it into the public, the education system, the state legislation, and so on. Keep it to thyself. Then it is your belief. If you become loud about it, it becomes propaganda. If you go public about it, it becomes politics. And be not fooled:
creationism is about religion, about nothing else.