the irony is that doing this sort of makes me pretentious, too.

[holidygolightly]

i'm extending my last entry to include pretentious people of all types, including, but not limited to

Comments

[purplemoocow]

there are militant atheists? what does a militant atheist do exactly?

[holidygolightly]

militant atheists are the flip-side of evangelists. they go around scoffing at god and making people feel stupid for believing in him. i'm highly suspicious of anyone who tries to force a belief that can't be tested on anyone else. they're either a self-righteous idiot, or they have an agenda.

[psifenix]

What about militant agnostics? 'I don't know and neither do you.' -- is that acceptable? =)

[holidygolightly]

"i don't know" is fine. "neither do you" is only acceptable if they're trying to push their beliefs onto you. if they're just going about their happy christian/jewish/muslim/hindu/zorastrian way, let them be.

[psifenix]

Well, "neither do you" has pretty solid epistemological grounds. I mean, such a person wouldn't be very considerate, surely, but they're correct rational... listic... ally.

But then again, it's faith that's important to religion, so rationalism really has no place in such discussions. :O

[holidygolightly]

precisely. and really, there's no point in making someone sad if you don't have to.

[holidygolightly]

man, i wish i were zorastrian. i would throw off everyone's census data.

[psifenix]

The corpes-on-towers-near-vultures thing always seemed kind of cool to me. And the whole "Good God vs. Evil God" business. :D

[herbie]

Actually, I know/have known a good number of these types.